I fully concur -- a clear statement of a concern about the source and 
any authentication/pay-walls limiting access to that source.  I assume 
that the official rebuilders other than SL have paid the necessary fees 
to download the real, actual, production IBM RH EL buildable source as 
referenced below, currently at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_downloads_&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=j7mNaMr3RpyEdYeH8As2iHvK3COgKfyQyUEjt2ii5IY&s=p3k8zDAgC2P7lVIg-CwRQDgEYcVE4tshZ2NTxmm8ZDM&e=  .

I do not have access -- but I assume that both Rocky and AlmaLinux have 
purchased the necessary access license.  I have not attempted to get a 
"dev" IBM RH license that supposedly is at no cost -- has anyone done so 
and down a full buildable source download?  Does this also access the 
update buildable source for the installable "binary" updates provided by 
IBM RH EL for the licensees?

On 5/4/21 4:11 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 04/05/2021 23:41, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> The source are at 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.centos.org&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=0Cvrr_2WDkcsrPdHGtY_tjL0G9TG69QDuL7UWeyXUhc&s=ujZIUv5p_MGjr0gtRL9D7zIJAitkNauyt8wOXo1WxwQ&e= 
>>
> 
> That's CentOS isn't it? That's fine if one wants to try and build CentOS 
> but if one is building a RHEL clone (with Red Hat proprietary IP removed 
> of course) then one would need the RHEL sources. The RHEL sources are 
> available from https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_downloads_&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=j7mNaMr3RpyEdYeH8As2iHvK3COgKfyQyUEjt2ii5IY&s=p3k8zDAgC2P7lVIg-CwRQDgEYcVE4tshZ2NTxmm8ZDM&e=  as long as you have 
> a suitable account.
> 
> And, in any case, after CentOS 8 support ends then the only CentOS 
> sources will be CentOS Stream sources which, as has been discussed at 
> length, will not be suitable for many use cases.
>