Behold CentOS Stream
A large part of CentOS development involved removing proprietary branding and trademarks. This, alongside managing repositories, documentation and package-building infrastructure, is painstaking work, but not comparable to the development effort behind a truly independent distro. Such as RHEL, for example.
Red Hat is generous in the sense that source RPMs for all RHEL packages, including media creation and installation tools, are all made available. So any budding hobbyist could eventually get their own RHEL clone up and running pretty easily. So long as you remove all references to Red Hat, and all pictures of red hats, then you’re free to distribute this (providing, per the GPL, you make your changes available too). It’s what CentOS did, and
