David Smith wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
. 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.
Here's a (possibly bad) idea to think about. Write a yum plugin that
refuses to install packages that have licensing policies you object to.
That sounds much easier to deal with than trying to keep your virtual
package up to date with new packages continually being added to the
repository.
Better way to do it would be to have license packages. So packages could
"requires" nonfree, and this would show up in the yum reports. Yum
remove nonfree would also purge your system effectively.
--CJD
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