On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:01 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 26.02.2007 14:27, seth vidal wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 04:29 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >>> On Feb 23, 2007, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> 1) Firmware packages are given the Group: tag of Firmware > >>>> 2) The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should > >>>> be set to: > >>>> "Redistributable firmware, no modification permitted" > >>> Any chance of getting all non-Free firmware to Require: some empty > >>> package (say freedom-loss or proprietary-crap :-) such that: > >>> - one could yum erase this package and end up without any non-Free > >>> Software installed, and > >>> - one could easily veirfy that custom distros with a subset of the > >>> complete Fedora package set don't include any such proprietary > >>> packages? > >> I actually like this idea. > > > > +1 -- but the kernel IIRC includes a lot of firmware files directly. Are > > there any efforts to strip those out? > > kernel doesn't include non-free ones (I hope). That's correct. From what's been said the kernel has gpl'd firmware only. now it might be a giant hexdump that's gpl'd but the point is still the same. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
