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Red Hat’s Mike McGrath responds
to the many criticisms aimed at the company since it changed its policy
regarding RHEL source code.

Ultimately, we do not find value in a RHEL rebuild and we are not
under any obligation to make things easier for rebuilders; this is
our call to make. That brings me to CentOS Stream, of which there
is immense confusion. I acknowledge that this is a change in a
longstanding tradition where we went above and beyond, and change
like this can cause some confusion. That confusion manifested as
accusations about us going closed-source and about alleged GPL
violations. There is CentOS Stream the binary deliverable, and
CentOS Stream the source repository. The CentOS Stream
gitlab source is where we build RHEL releases, in the open for
all to see. To call RHEL “closed source” is categorically untrue
and inaccurate. CentOS Stream moves faster than RHEL, so it might
not be on HEAD, but the code is there. If you can’t find it, it’s a
bug – please let us know.