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If this is for your own use, Red Hat has long had free developer licenses for rhel.

https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/overview

My guess would be it would be under he same usesge license. For example if your company is already licenced for RHEL then this is just an added avenue of execution. Instead of maybe an extra dedicated REHL workspace or machine you could in theory delegate some of that to an already established Windows Server?

Why would you run wsl on a server?

People do strange things! It’s not for me to judge!

This is more true that you would want to know, especially in Windows Server based shops...

It is officially supported as way for mixed loads, for example on IoT devices.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/iot-edge-fo...

I think it will be available on the Microsoft Store for install like the other Linux distributions available there. Not sure if they will charge for it but it probably will be promoted as a development server.

I would guess you still need a RHEL account to register the VM.

In a knock on no entity, this is an easy win for MSFT and RH. Nothing wrong with it.

you will be required to use it by your employer