Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

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Francis Earl wrote:
Sun Java is not redistributable

It is redistributable or Ubuntu couldn't have it either. And it could be trivial to add even if it wasn't included. It isn't.

and currently isn't open source, thus
goes against Fedora values in 2 ways.

You have to choose between being a political platform with an agenda or a usable distribution.

Kernel modules that are not GPLv2 compatible are indeed illegal,
however.

A matter of opinion and speculation so far - or just plain FUD... I'd like to see this shaken out so if it really is illegal to use Linux with software of your choice everyone can just move on.

> Other modules are not shipped because they are not part of the
upstream kernel, which again goes against Fedora values.

And someone is wondering why people like Ubuntu?

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