[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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