Alexandre Oliva wrote:
How is it that Fedora is not on this list?
http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
gNewsSense just recently came around and they are on the list. What's
up with that?
Although there is non-Free Software included in Fedora, AFAIK the most
serious issue is a matter of policy ("non-Free Software is
acceptable"; "shipping these non-Free bits are not bugs that need
fixing right away") rather than the actual presence of non-Free
Software. If the right policies were in place, given enough manpower,
all non-Free Software would be eventually shoved out of Fedora. With
the current policies, more and more non-Free Software is being
welcomed into Fedora.
Errr... "right policies" isn't exactly a valid description. I'd call it
misguided or cultish instead.
I ran across a surprisingly perceptive description of the confusion of
GPL restrictions with freedom here:
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/08/1832255&from=rss.
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