Proposal: Revision of policy surrounding 3rd party and non-free software

[Eric H. Christensen]

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
> So to summarize the proposal.
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> * Fedora will continue to not ship non-free software and as part of that will continue to only default to free software.

This is a must.

> * We will add the needed metadata to the Software installer to give our users the freedom to choose to install legally cleared 3rd party software

- From a desire to push FOSS solutions I don't like making it easy to use non-free solutions where free solutions are available.  It would seem that we are endorsing these non-FOSS solutions which could also be a problem.  How does a project get into your non-free solution?  Why would one be rejected from being included?  We'd need to publish the rules of engagement and I'd want to see those rules before checking off on this.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project

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