Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 21, 2008, Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:20 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>> On May 21, 2008, Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> . Permission to distribute under the mark 'Fedora' spins containing
>>> kernel-libre packages, whose sole difference from identically-numbered
>>> Fedora kernel builds is the removal of a few pieces of non-Free
>>> Software.
> 
>> I've gone ahead and add the kernel-libre topic to the schedule for
>> tomorrow.  I've put it at the end of the agenda though, since I want to
>> make sure we get to the other items on the schedule before we begin this
>> discussion (since I'm guessing it will be fairly lengthy).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Here's the proposed feature I've just drafted up:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraFreedom

You might want to attend the IRC meeting and participate in the 
discussions regarding this proposal. Also try and pro actively address 
the objections raised and answer them within the wiki page. Not everyone 
in FESCo might have read the lengthy thread on the topic.  IIRC, the 
primary and perhaps only real objection is that you are proposing to 
maintain a additional kernel package. Instead  David Woodhouse, Alan Cox 
and others have offered to act as a gateway between you and upstream 
Linux community and remove the firmware out of the kernel in a way that 
satisfies the requirement of both the parties instead of maintaining a 
separate branch within Fedora.

Rahul