It’s not really Fdroid complying so much as the developers signing the apps having registered with Google. Fdroid itself is unaffected by it except for having to sign their appstore binary. But they definitely are championing the side of the FOSS developer that’s traditionally been their supplier, and it’s how it’s going to affect those devs that they’re (rightly) up in arms on behalf.
It’s not really Fdroid complying so much as the developers signing the apps having registered with Google. Fdroid itself is unaffected by it except for having to sign their appstore binary. But they definitely are championing the side of the FOSS developer that’s traditionally been their supplier, and it’s how it’s going to affect those devs that they’re (rightly) up in arms on behalf.