@mischievoustomato so far, not even canonical's taken to do something like that, and it's already bothersome to deal with fedora going downhill because of red hat's decisions, specially in politics where god why the fuck is matthew miller still there someone kick that bitch out.

as far as suse goes, i guess that's just the stereotypical german bureucracy that they have where it's more of a "the allies didn't finish the job" kind of thing. still they shouldn't be bureucratising that sort of things like if we're in 2004 and we ship code over cds.

as far as the openela goes, they're fully legit and just based beyond avail.
https://github.com/orgs/openela-main/repositories
https://oss.oracle.com/sources/

it's not a business trying to protect itself, its just ibm trying to get more money from things that the old redhat would have never ever done