Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:59:37PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Which would then lead to the analogous corner case of something that's
> open-source but expects to be compiled with a non-free compiler or one
> that's not in Fedora for some reason.

Like java was

> There's at least one piece of free (GPL) software which we can't
> include because it requires some commercial BASIC compiler.

Can it be moved to one of the free basics ?