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Fedora free?

Fedora free?

Posted Apr 14, 2007 18:26 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Fedora free? by cortana
Parent article: Blaming Fedora

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.


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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
there (due to the invariant sections).

Like another poster said, there are quite a few different definitions
of "free".

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