Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 18 19:42:44 UTC 2008


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
> 
>> Certain forms of software being non modifiable is perfectly ok
>> according to FSF.
> 
> Err...  I'm sure there's some misunderstanding here somewhere.  Where
> did you get that idea?
> 
> Do you by any chance mistake 'non-functional data' (images, songs,
> etc) for software?

Not all game maps are purely non functional data for example. GFDL has 
non variant sections and so on. I am still working with FSF to clarify 
such details. Suffice to say there are lots of border line cases.

Rahul




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