Re: [fab] Fedora as Free Software?

[Michael Tiemann <tiemann redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:01 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael Tiemann (tiemann redhat com) said: 
> > I'm wondering what you guys think about changing the tilt of Fedora from
> > open source to free software.  Namely, saying that the license should
> > meet the free software definition (
> >  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and then mentioning that
> > OSI-certified licenses (with the exception of the Reciprocal Public
> > License, which we're going to reevaluate) are a good list, as well as
> > the free software licenses that are listed on the FSF website.
> > 
> > The goal is to make Fedora a distribution that the FSF can positively
> > endorse.  I think we're really close.  Any reason to not try to go all
> > the way?
> 
> a) do we know of anything that doesn't fit this?

Dunno--but I'm not the expert in that department.

> b) will they require us to change everything to say GNU/Linux? :)

No.  That's not a requirement of the Free Software Definition 8-P

M