[fab] Most Advanced 100% Free Distribution?

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 14:54:51 UTC 2006


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I am not sure what the kernel binary blobs in this PR refers to. AFAIK, 
> the upstream kernel itself includes firmware which we dont remove in 
> Fedora.  Our guidelides dont require source for all firmware and just 
> redistribution rights.
> 

Maybe we don't want to go this far.  The benefits of redistributable 
firmware perhaps greatly outweigh the ideological benefits.

Firmware is nowhere near the level of evil as binary-only drivers 
hooking into the kernel.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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