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Redhat can absolutely stop doing business with someone in a protected class. They can stop doing business with anyone in any protected class.

What they can't do is stop doing business with someone because they belong to a protected class.

You would have to argue that support of the GPL was a religious belief to gain such protections.

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That was a typo on my part. I've corrected it.

>You would have to argue that support of the GPL was a religious belief to gain such protections.

Under the current law I don't think there is a path to allow this. I'm suggesting a new law. The reason for the new law would be to close a loophole which lets megacorporations skip having to follow contracts (or even laws, as there is a similar problem there).

That's not relevant to the point, since it's analogous to them choosing not to do business with someone because they redistributed the software. The motivation is not a point that's in question.

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