[Fedora-packaging] Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 11:02 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
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> > > > > > "SG" == Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> writes:
> SG> If they can't get that software from Fedora, they *will* get it
> from
> SG> another source (or use a different OS that doesn't get in their
> SG> way).
> 
> Exactly.  Let's ship binary drivers.
> 
> I know that's something of a straw man, but my point is that we must
> have some principles, and must work with upstreams to attempt to get
> them to at least understand those principles.  And we shouldn't give
> up
> on that just because someone wants some program which is easily
> provided
> by a copr anyway.
> 


Binary drivers are a different problem. We don't ship those because
there are *legal* concerns preventing it. We've got plenty of stuff in
COPRs right now that are not in Fedora proper *solely* because of
bundling policies and not because of any hard-line external reason.
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