[fab] Fedora as Free Software?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Apr 22 01:01:10 UTC 2006


Michael Tiemann (tiemann at redhat.com) said: 
> I'm wondering what you guys think about changing the tilt of Fedora from
> open source to free software.  Namely, saying that the license should
> meet the free software definition (
>  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and then mentioning that
> OSI-certified licenses (with the exception of the Reciprocal Public
> License, which we're going to reevaluate) are a good list, as well as
> the free software licenses that are listed on the FSF website.
> 
> The goal is to make Fedora a distribution that the FSF can positively
> endorse.  I think we're really close.  Any reason to not try to go all
> the way?

a) do we know of anything that doesn't fit this?
b) will they require us to change everything to say GNU/Linux? :)

Bill




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