Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

[Michel Salim]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Mamoru Tasaka
<mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> Michel Salim wrote, at 09/07/2008 03:57 PM +9:00:
>>
>> I was just over at gnu.org to download the anniversary video recorded
>> by Stephen Fry, and while I was there decided to take a look at what
>> systems they recommend as being free.
>>
>> They list BLAG, which is based on Fedora. But Fedora itself (and
>> Debian) is not there!
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
>>
>> This struck me as rather strange, especially considering their
>> guidelines are actually based on Fedora's (and we are thanked for it):
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
>>
>> As far as I remember, Rahul Sundaram was talking to the GNU / FSF
>> people about this quite a while back. Is it just the difference over
>> binary-only firmware that's consigning us to the "non-free" heap?
>
> I cannot do any legal comment here, however I just want to say that
> I don't want to see the nightmare which happened on fedora-list any more.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-July/thread.html#01481
>
Apologies; I stopped reading fedora-list due to the volume, but I
ought to have checked it first.

Just two things:
1. If Fedora ships a firmware blob-free alternative kernel, someone
could create an official Fedora spin that's good enough for RMS
2. Should we perhaps link to MarkMail from the mailing list archives site?

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
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