On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michel Salim wrote, at 09/07/2008 03:57 PM +9:00: >> >> I was just over at gnu.org to download the anniversary video recorded >> by Stephen Fry, and while I was there decided to take a look at what >> systems they recommend as being free. >> >> They list BLAG, which is based on Fedora. But Fedora itself (and >> Debian) is not there! >> >> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions >> >> This struck me as rather strange, especially considering their >> guidelines are actually based on Fedora's (and we are thanked for it): >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html >> >> As far as I remember, Rahul Sundaram was talking to the GNU / FSF >> people about this quite a while back. Is it just the difference over >> binary-only firmware that's consigning us to the "non-free" heap? > > I cannot do any legal comment here, however I just want to say that > I don't want to see the nightmare which happened on fedora-list any more. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-July/thread.html#01481 > Apologies; I stopped reading fedora-list due to the volume, but I ought to have checked it first. Just two things: 1. If Fedora ships a firmware blob-free alternative kernel, someone could create an official Fedora spin that's good enough for RMS 2. Should we perhaps link to MarkMail from the mailing list archives site? Regards, -- Michel Salim http://hircus.jaiku.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
