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if the GPL is the only license, then yes. however, if there are additional licenses applied which don't conflict with GPL, you may face restrictions on, say, distribution and sales of the code base, as Red Hat has done.
In effect, it's open source, but access is restricted to paying customers of RHEL, and they'e not allowed to redistribute or sell it per the additional license they agree to when they purchase it.