On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:01 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Michael Tiemann (tiemann@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I'm wondering what you guys think about changing the tilt of Fedora from > > open source to free software. Namely, saying that the license should > > meet the free software definition ( > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and then mentioning that > > OSI-certified licenses (with the exception of the Reciprocal Public > > License, which we're going to reevaluate) are a good list, as well as > > the free software licenses that are listed on the FSF website. > > > > The goal is to make Fedora a distribution that the FSF can positively > > endorse. I think we're really close. Any reason to not try to go all > > the way? > > a) do we know of anything that doesn't fit this? Dunno--but I'm not the expert in that department. > b) will they require us to change everything to say GNU/Linux? :) No. That's not a requirement of the Free Software Definition 8-P M
