On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:01:39AM -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). Wasn't that why Debian Sarge was stalled for an age and a half (among other)? People discussing riping out the firmware blobs? Maybe we should avoid discussing firmware in the kernel sources otherwise F7 may slip, too. ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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