On Mar 25, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once you remove the politics, ...that are the core of any mission, such as Fedora's stated mission, and that make all of the difference in this case. > it's essentially the same because you've disregarded the only relevant point. > as requesting to add a separate glibc that changes the resolving > library. Or shipping two GNOMEs, one of which changes the default > theme. > Those obviously wouldn't be sane things to do. Agreed. There aren't legal or ethical issues involved in these. And they bear no relationship with Fedora's stated mission. > That's why were telling you to work in the upstream That won't work. Upstream doesn't value freedom like we do, they have different goals and will take compromises I won't. And then I'd be stuck. Now, that Fedora wouldn't value freedom so much, to the point of effetively rejecting the mere possibility of enabling people to ship a Fedora spin built exclusively out of Free Software, and instead setting me off into an impossible mission as a pre-condition, that's quite surprising and saddening. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
