kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:35 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >> I don't think that anyone has said that you can't make a special
> >> spin with this kernel in it.
> > 
> > For what it is worth, I actually am saying that such a spin can't be
> > called Fedora, under the existing trademark guidelines, since I am
> > opposed to any "alternative kernel" packages in the Fedora repository.
> 
> Well, there is still something called kernel-xen.

Yes, but it isn't a separate package, it is built off the kernel SRPM.
If "kernel-libre" was generated from the kernel SRPM like "kernel-xen"
is, I would be ok with it, but it doesn't seem like that is a feasible
option, since the firmware would still be in the kernel SRPM.

~spot