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Your use of the word framework makes me think you are confused.
If you use an open source IDE to do your development, you're not obligated to release your project, your novel invention, under the same license.
If you take someone else's work, and modify or redistribute it, you are bound by the license of that project. You dont get to just do whatever you want with someone else's work just because they released the code publicly.
Many Linux components, including the kernel, are under the GPL license. That license requires that derivative works be licensed GPL and source code be made available.
Large portions of Redhat Linux are GPL licensed. They are required to provide source code for those portions.
If Redhat were to develop something that was not derived of a GPL project, they could license it however they want.