On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 11:02 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: <snip> > > > > > > "SG" == Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > SG> If they can't get that software from Fedora, they *will* get it > from > SG> another source (or use a different OS that doesn't get in their > SG> way). > > Exactly. Let's ship binary drivers. > > I know that's something of a straw man, but my point is that we must > have some principles, and must work with upstreams to attempt to get > them to at least understand those principles. And we shouldn't give > up > on that just because someone wants some program which is easily > provided > by a copr anyway. > Binary drivers are a different problem. We don't ship those because there are *legal* concerns preventing it. We've got plenty of stuff in COPRs right now that are not in Fedora proper *solely* because of bundling policies and not because of any hard-line external reason.
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