[fab] Most Advanced 100% Free Distribution?

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 12:00 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> To be honest, I find stallman's answers quite confusing!
> 
> >From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF:
> > > * Would it be possible for the FSF to go through our packaging
> > > guidelines at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines and the
> > > packages included in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras aside from our own
> > > licensing audit and point out clear or potential issues with it?
> 
> > We can certainly go through the guidelines.  We have not yet done so,
> > but we know of one problem in the current policy: it says that
> > packages can be included which qualify as open source but not as free
> > software.  In other words, not all packages need to meet the
> > definition of free software.
> 
> Ok, why not add "free (with source codes) and opensource software" in
> FE guidelines to satisfy this criteria ?

Because it will not satisfy this criteria. There is open source software
that the FSF considers non-free. Everything that the FSF considers
"free" is also considered open source. They want us to just drop the
open source.

~spot

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