Kernel-firmware package and Anaconda.
Bram_Gro
Bram_Gro at lavabit.com
Fri Apr 3 15:41:45 UTC 2009
Alan Cox wrote:
>> By installing kernel-firmware, I would install closed source firmware.
>
> And by turning your laptop on you would use closed source BIOS code
> (which you will also redistribute if you should give the laptop away ;))
>
> Its really up to you - there isn't a some precise watertight definition
> of open source.
I know that its up to me, but to maintain a Fedora installation clean of
proprietary stuff, is adding the kernel-firmware package to yum.config
exclusion list sufficient.
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