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Rocky Linux have said that they can rebuild using publicly available sources in UBI containers and cloud images.
https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/
Though reading the article, I don't know if SUSE is simply rebuilding or forking. In any case, it's cool to see SUSE committed to open source principles.
Thank you. The SuSE blogpost uses the word “fork”
But they also say their fork will be RHEL-compatible, which means it'll be a hard fork that needs to track RHEL's changes in some way.
SUSE doesn't HAVE to do that. That's kind of a grey area. It's legal, but kind of skirting things.
What you can do is get RHEL, take a look at all the packages and their changelogs, git history, find the code in CentOS, and then build your own from scratch. It's a ton more work, Rocky wouldn't have the resources to do it, but SUSE will.
Just realized, can't do git history, because they wouldn't package in the git files as that'd be internal to RHEL.