RHEL is obliged to provide source code for their GPL packages.
You ask for source code, you'll get it.
You distribute the source code, RH will terminate the contract with you because they don't want to see you as a customer anymore.
They're free to do business with whoever they want, peeking people who will not distribute RH sources.
Every party is in their right here. That's my understanding.
Red Hat did that for many years. They maintain extended support branches for RHEL which provide fixes for very old software. Those fixes AFAIK were never "leaked" despite the fact that every customer could receive it. If it was as simple as crowd-funding single subscription and then publish all the sources, someone would do it and we would have CentOS Extended LTS.
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