Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’
I believe the real issue here is that Fedora serves as an upstream test bed for Red Hat Enterprise. Since the code changes made in Fedora trickle through to Red Hat, and Red Hat is widely used as the distro of choice in military private clouds, and the UBI distro from Red Hat is the container image base of choice for the DoD assured containers repository, they&#x27;re trying to keep contributors from countries hostile to the US military out of the supply chain. It&#x27;s not that they&#x27;re trying to punish the guy for being from Iran. They&#x27;re trying to keep Iranian contributors out of the code base because they fear the Iranian government can lean on him to plant malicious code.<p>I can rightfully see this leading to questions about how &quot;free&quot; Red Hat really is when it needs to bow to military interests like this for commercial reasons (they want to keep those enterprise support contracts with the DoD). Software freedom was always meant to refer to freedom for users, though, not freedom for developers.