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Re:Red Hat RHEL 9 release by mogwire on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:02PM (#31348816)
#22 and #42 is how they try to prevent people from adding RPMs from mainstream RHEL. I have seen GitHub repos owned by RH employees that have containers files that require you to attach entitlement cert and the Red Hat cdn repo to install additional packages. It doesn’t violate EULA because they aren’t distributing the image.

RH knows people will try to abuse the free UBI image and install RPMs they shouldn’t be.

I work with Red Hat Partners so I know these rules well.

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Re:Red Hat RHEL 9 release by parasense on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:05AM (#31349496)
Yeah, they are base images devoid of copyright/trademark assets like artwork or whatever, and so it goes... just a platform to layer around. Like you wrote the first thing many people want or need, is to layer other RHEL packages, or if the software lacks many dependencies then the ISV just integrates their own software over top, then packages that layer themselves...

Meh

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