Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

[Hans de Goede]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:59:37PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> Which would then lead to the analogous corner case of something that's
>> open-source but expects to be compiled with a non-free compiler or one
>> that's not in Fedora for some reason.
> 
> Like java was
> 
>> There's at least one piece of free (GPL) software which we can't
>> include because it requires some commercial BASIC compiler.
> 
> Can it be moved to one of the free basics ?
> 

Probably not, as it uses a pretty advanced basic dialect, but it might be worth 
a shot. Anyone got a list of those free basics handy?

Regards,

Hans