Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:58 -0400, jude ui wrote:
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> On 9/17/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote: 
>         jude ui wrote:
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>                    Might want to take a look at
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>                  http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html
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>                    Rahul
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>                    Why is there the source for firmware?
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>         >Sorry. I am not sure what that means.
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>         Rahul
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>         Thanks for the link - but it's debian-I thought we were
>         talking about Fedora here
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> And to repharse my question - Can't you guys reselse the firmware as

"release"?

>  opensource - are they prosperity drivers? (correct me if I'm wrong)

"proprietary"?

If I understand you correctly(*), then yes, most (all?) firmware is
proprietary software for which we don't have the source code.

(*): It's a bit hard to answer questions where you have to guess what is
asked ;-).

Nils
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