Am Do, den 22.07.2004 um 11:59 Uhr -0700 schrieb Jonathan Gardner: > On Tuesday 20 July 2004 04:01 am, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > > IMHO Fedora needs a special application that assist you at downloading > > things (like this firmware) and then builds RPMs from the files > > automatically. > > No, we need to put pressure on these software writers to license their code > responsibly. Or we need to buy other kinds of hardware. Maybe. But it is often not only the firmware for hardware. I often hear people say "Fedora does not have RPMS for Acrobat Reader and Suns-Java? Suse has, Fedora sucks!" Yes I know then there are repositories that have these RPMS -- but AFAIK the licenses of this softare this is not legal (at least in case of the acrobat reader -- not sure about suns java). An of course, solve this problem otherwise (like a redistribution license for livna.org or something like that) is of course the best solution. CU thl
