Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Jul 13 21:15:44 UTC 2008
> My opinion is that it's political in nature. GNU doesn't like Red
It is political for sure - GNU has a highly public agenda around free
software and what is and is not "free".
> Hat and, by extension, anything that Red Hat contributes to. OC, I have
> absolutely no proof nor reason for this opinion. But it's a gut feel.
The FSF policy on not listing stuff they consider to have non-free
elements hasn't changed much in years. I don't really see them as picking
on Red Hat here.
Alan
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