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Another poster brought this up. The tooling used to construct the distribution itself isn't GPL code.
Couldn't it be that RH are taking about banning accounts that share non-GPL code from their distribution? Given their upstream contribution history, it seems unlikely to me that they would throw a fit over GPL source files they probably already distributed in some form in CentOS Stream.
Earning cash on free software code isn't a crime. RH clearly is frustrated with the existence of Oracle EL etc al, and want to make it more difficult for enterprise competitors to leverage their person-hours. As long as they continue to share source with the people given access to the binaries, I'll keep an open mind about this change.