Fedora opens up to bundling

The term "bundling" refers to the practice of distributing a copy of one software project (usually some sort of library) within another one. Software developers may have a number of reasons for bundling, but Linux distributors tend to dislike it for reasons of their own. The Fedora project, in particular, has long forbidden bundling except in a few cases where it could not be avoided. It now seems, though, that Fedora has decided to back off a bit on its anti-bundling policy — a decision that is not uniformly popular in its development community, but which may well be necessary to help ensure the distribution's ongoing relevance.

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