Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> said: > I would just like to remind people that there are not two (Fedora and > non-free) kinds of package, but three, the totally free (Fedora), the close > source but legal (fglrx and similar vendor drivers), and the only legal in > the free world, restricted in fascist countries. > > I mention this because vendor drivers, while not open source, are free and > legal to use and redistribute. So let's not talk about rpmfusion and *forge > software as illegal, much of it is not, even in the USA. Aside from calling the US fascist (which is a little over the top, especially since the US isn't the only country that has allowed and/or enforced the stupid patents), you're wrong on another point. A number of the closed source kernel modules are of questionable legality (and not just in the US), because they may be derived works of the Linux kernel. A derived work of the kernel must be GPLv2, which can't be closed source. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
