This commit represents a notable change to the Fedora Code of Conduct, including new language that describes our stance against retaliation and defining protections for reporters and participants, and addressing the issue of false reports.

The work in making this update began in September 2024 by Marie Nordin (@riecatnor) who first raised this as an issue and identifying an industry trend towards including language about retaliation in a Code of Conduct. A proposal was made and went through several rounds of revision. The revision represented in this commit was signed off by Red Hat Legal (Richard Fontana) in January 2026.

Upon merging to the main branch, the Fedora Code of Conduct v2.1 comes into effect and will be used as guiding reference for future tickets by the Fedora Code of Conduct Committee.

• CC, CoC Committee: @jspaleta @jonatoni @dcantrell @ankursinha @chris
• CC, Council: @bookwar @churchyard @t0xic0der @amoloney @ryanlerch @pboy @pbokoc @nimbinatus

Fixes CoC#345.