Intel Pro Wireless cards

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Thu Mar 3 05:56:25 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:56 -0500, Eric Warnke wrote:
>I know this will open a large can of worms, so please take this message 
>as mearly a way of opening a dialog on the subject.
>
>Objecive 2 of the Fedora "contract" specifies that it should be built 
>exclusivly from open source software.
>
>But is firmware software?  It is more like a document, image, or other 
>fixed item.  What about Creative Commons "by" and "by-nd" licensed 
>documentation are those items locked out of Fedora as well?

It's an interesting take on firmware.

It makes me wonder if there's a lot of difference between Fedora
trademarks and firmware, in that both are free-as-in-beer, but if you
wish to roll your own fedora (AFAIK) you have to remove all the Fedora
trademarks.

Or am I totally confused?


Rodd




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