Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Claiming that we need to address them without providing a good way to > solve that while not compromising on our principles is not a solution. > If you have a good way to enhance the desktop experience without > including or supporting non-free software, feel free to suggest that. > > Its also important to recognize that non-free software often has > practical limitations of not being ported across all the architectures > that Fedora supports and we dont have a good way to fix problems that > arise out of it. Is there any possibility of shipping the things that are legal and do work across platforms: firmware? For example, I have an Intel wireless card that uses the ipw2200 driver and firmware. I know there was discussion from (IIRC) OpenBSD with various vendors about the licenses for firmware distribution; did any of that go anywhere? What is the Fedora Project's stand on firmware distribution? Could there at least be a pointer included somewhere for where to get firmware? Unlike some other additional software, it is legal to distribute the Intel firmware for example (at least the way I read the license). Maybe there could be a "non-free" that includes software that is legal but under more restrictive licenses (there aren't many things that fall in that category). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
