Re: kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Mar 25, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com> wrote:

> Once you remove the politics,

...that are the core of any mission, such as Fedora's stated mission,
and that make all of the difference in this case.

> it's essentially the same

because you've disregarded the only relevant point.

> as requesting to add a separate glibc that changes the resolving
> library.  Or shipping two GNOMEs, one of which changes the default
> theme.

> Those obviously wouldn't be sane things to do.

Agreed.  There aren't legal or ethical issues involved in these.  And
they bear no relationship with Fedora's stated mission.

> That's why were telling you to work in the upstream

That won't work.  Upstream doesn't value freedom like we do, they have
different goals and will take compromises I won't.  And then I'd be
stuck.

Now, that Fedora wouldn't value freedom so much, to the point of
effetively rejecting the mere possibility of enabling people to ship a
Fedora spin built exclusively out of Free Software, and instead
setting me off into an impossible mission as a pre-condition, that's
quite surprising and saddening.

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