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I don't understand what's happening at Red Hat. First they pull the codecs out of Fedora which is supposed to be a community distro so why are company lawyers involved? Now basically closing their source code. I mean technically not violating the GPL cause you only have to have your source available to your customers.
Looks like this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish