On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 13:11 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:02:31 -0700 > Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Kernel modules are kind of a grey area because there are differing > > opinions on their legality in re the GPL, but in general terms, > > it's > > not correct to say we don't include non-free software for *legal* > > reasons. There are plenty of non-free-but-legally-redistributable > > things, e.g. Flash. We have always been clear that we disallow non- > > free software unconditionally for *philosophical*, not *legal*, > > reasons. > > Wat? > > From https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > > https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/legal > /licenses-terms/pdf/PlatformClients_PC_WWEULA-en_US-20150407_1357.pdf > > "3.3 Distribution. This license does not grant you the right to > sublicense or distribute the Software" > > Flash is not legally-redistributable. Huh, maybe it changed? Or there's a different license somewhere. I'm almost sure it used to be, and this was intentional. Oh well, substitute some other example, you get the point - Sun's Java or something. It was just an example. There *are* non-free, redistributable things out there. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
