Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting

[Casey Dahlin]

David Smith wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>   
>> . Inclusion in Fedora (future and recent past releases) of a
>> fedora-freedom "virtual" package, that Requires: linux-libre and
>> Conflicts: with any Fedora package known to contain software (firmware
>> included) that does not respect the 4 freedoms established in the Free
>> Software definition.  AFAIK these would pretty much amount to the
>> standard non-Free kernel and a bunch of *-firmware packages, but there
>> could be sub-packages to cover other debatable packages with obscure
>> source code, dubious licensing policies, etc.
>>     
>
> Here's a (possibly bad) idea to think about.  Write a yum plugin that
> refuses to install packages that have licensing policies you object to.
>  That sounds much easier to deal with than trying to keep your virtual
> package up to date with new packages continually being added to the
> repository.
>
>   
Better way to do it would be to have license packages. So packages could 
"requires" nonfree, and this would show up in the yum reports. Yum 
remove nonfree would also purge your system effectively.

--CJD