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Fedora free?Fedora free?Posted Apr 12, 2007 12:29 UTC (Thu) by bcs (subscriber, #27943)In reply to: Fedora free? by ldo Parent article: Blaming Fedora
Fedora is committed to being 100% free software, and they've recently made some incredible progress on that front. They've occasionally asked me to help evaluate licenses as part of this work. They haven't quite reached the goal yet—for example, they're still dealing with some of the tougher issues like binary firmware blobs in the kernel. But I'm personally optimistic about their continued progress. -- Brett Smith, FSF Licensing Compliance Engineer
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Fedora free? Posted Apr 12, 2007 18:30 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
When I asked about FSF's position, RMS claimed that he is willing to ignore the issue of sourceless firmware within the kernel and FSF site already lists several distributions as Free even though they include such firmware
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF
So a FSF licensing compliance engineer pointing it out as a example of Fedora not reaching it's goal is puzzling. Meanwhile Fedora project is waiting on FSF to go through the OSI licenses that are important to Fedora as requested by RMS earlier and inform us whether they are considered Free software licenses or not.
If you are willing to speed up that process drop me a mail @fedoraproject.org
Fedora free? Posted Apr 13, 2007 15:46 UTC (Fri) by bcs (subscriber, #27943) [Link] Thanks for the message; I sent you e-mail.
Fedora free? Posted Apr 14, 2007 11:48 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Now that is interesting! I wonder what, then, is the reason that the FSF will not endorse Debian in this day and age!
Fedora free? Posted Apr 14, 2007 18:26 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Debian hosts and supports a non-free repository while technically unofficial is part of Debian infrastructure and is maintained by Debian developers. FSF wants that to be separated out entirely and wants Debian to not promote and mention it anywhere.
That is my understanding of the conflict. While non-free firmware in the kernel is problematic RMS says he is willing to overlook for a limited time period as a practical compromise.
Fedora free? Posted Apr 24, 2007 8:12 UTC (Tue) by robbe (subscriber, #16131) [Link] > FSF wants that to be separated out entirely and wants Debian to not> promote and mention it anywhere.
Which would be ... interesting with a lot of GNU manuals now being in
Like another poster said, there are quite a few different definitions
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