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

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Mar 23, 2008, Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> wrote:

> Fedora also strongly pushes "upstream, upstream, upstream"

Except when there are bits in the project that Fedora can't or doesn't
want to ship.  We do omit patent-encumbered bits from sources of
various Free Software projects.  This is no different, except that,
instead of patent encumbrances, the issue is absence of corresponding
source code.

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