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Red Hat and the Clone Wars
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From a users' perspective, you still have full rights to review, modify, and even redistribute the code. Though, exercising the last one is where RH limits people to the future code and software to its customer. A positive right to the developer's future work is something that would require some kind of funding mechanism, but for the purpose of being Libre/Opensource it was something never guaranteed anyway.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/
If you contractually limit user rights to redistribute the code, then how can you actually comply with the GPL? Redistribution isn't an optional clause.
They don't, but they won't do further business with you if you choose to do so.
The software and code you have is still fully yours though.