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Re: Referring to rpmfusion on Fedora project wiki?
- From: Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Referring to rpmfusion on Fedora project wiki?
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:07:26 -0800
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:24 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:
> > After all, there's nothing illegal about the proprietary NVIDIA or ATI
> > drivers, but the Wiki doesn't talk about how to install those (as far as
> > I can see, anyway).
>
>
> There are people who believe that the binary drivers are in fact GPL
> violations and thus illegal to distribute. Here's a good discussion
> from 2006 as to why the FSF thinks that these things violate the GPL:
Well, presumably the same logic would apply to wl, then, as it's a
kernel module containing non-free code. So either way, we would appear
to need a consistent policy here.
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Adam Williamson
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