On May 21, 2008, Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to > this mail and I'll add it to the schedule. Given that Freedom² is a major fedora feature, I'd like to discuss enabling the creation of Fedora spins containing exclusively Free Software. These are related sub-topics: . Permission to distribute under the mark 'Fedora' spins containing kernel-libre packages, whose sole difference from identically-numbered Fedora kernel builds is the removal of a few pieces of non-Free Software. . Inclusion in Fedora (future and recent past releases) of the kernel-libre package, a 100% Free Software variant of the kernel Linux, that I've been maintaining tracking Fedora kernel builds at http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/linux-libre/ . Inclusion in Fedora (future and recent past releases) of a fedora-freedom "virtual" package, that Requires: linux-libre and Conflicts: with any Fedora package known to contain software (firmware included) that does not respect the 4 freedoms established in the Free Software definition. AFAIK these would pretty much amount to the standard non-Free kernel and a bunch of *-firmware packages, but there could be sub-packages to cover other debatable packages with obscure source code, dubious licensing policies, etc. I realize these packages should probably be submitted for inclusion through the regular package submission process, but I was advised to discuss linux-libre in FESCo first, and the second is closely related and has no upstream. I'm a bit hesitant, for these appear to be more of policy than engineering issues, and my understanding is that the board is in charge of such decisions. Anyhow, it (hopefully :-) wouldn't hurt for the board to get recommendations from engineering in this regard, assuming my understanding as to how policy decisions are made is correct. Please let me know whether this is a suitable topic for discussion in tomorrow's meeting, and I'll do my best to be there, i.e., save for unforeseeable issues or ISP LoQoS I've been subject to recently :-/ the L in LoQoS is for Lack, in case it's not obvious :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
