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Does their contribution agreement override the GPL

I looked at your code. It looks like you are licensing it using the GPL version 3. I am not a lawyer, but it does look to me as though the language in the contributor agreement means Redhat can do what ever they want with the code and they do not have to give changes back. Whether they realistically would or not is another matter, but if this gives the legal right, then it runs counter to the spirit of why you chose the GPL in the first place.

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