Re: Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Sep  7, 2008, "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta gmail com> wrote:

> but it seems to be we are trying to be responsive in a way that
> makes sense from our project's point of view.

Not trying to be flamy, but...

- there's a 100% Free kernel source alternate upstream that tracks
kernel.org very closely, that's identical except for the removal of
non-Free firmware, and that's been available for quite a while
(linux-libre)

- there's a viable alternate source for firmware, both Free and
non-Free, and it has been available for quite a while (dwmw2's
firwmare git repo)

- the removal of firmware upstream won't take place in linux-2.6.27,
which pretty much means kernel.org linux sources won't be stripped off
of non-Free bits in time for Fedora 10

- Fedora still prefers to ship the encumbered bits, making it
impossible to distribute 100% Free spins of Fedora 10 without
distributing or committing to distributing the non-Free bits in the
corresponding sources of the kernel

Care to help me understand how that is responsive or makes sense from
the project's point of view?  I'm quite puzzled at that.

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