Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:21 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>> >> Atleast in Fedora the division is clearly documented in the
>> >> packaging guidelines.
>> >
>> > Which is and has always been incompatible with the stated
>> > goals of the Fedora project.
>>
>> It may be worth pointing out here that Fedora currently only includes
>> objectives/packaging-guidelines to be opensource/redistributable, not
>> necessarily (100%) free,
>
> This sentence of yours doesn't match with current practices:
...
> The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to
> build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from
> open source software.
I fail to see any mismatch: I said opensource, the "goal" says
opensource. Unless you're trying to extend this goal to firmware, but
we'd already (hopefully) established clearly that this is an *exception*.
> => The firmware packages do not fall under this definition.
Right, since *firm*ware != *soft*ware and was the point of my "doesn't
run on host-cpu" qualifier. The rest I pretty much agree with, and
certainly in a perfect world we'd all love 100% opensource firmware too.
-- Rex
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