Good news from fedora-advisory-board
Fri, 2006-08-18 02:10
I just asked about making Fedora all Free Software in #fedora-devel (on Freenode of course) and someone pointed me to the fedora-advisory-board list. It seems the first time being all Free Software was brought up there was in April. I looked through the archives for August, and it seems that this is getting quite a bit of attention now. Someone has gone through Fedora Core & Extras and looked for nonfree packages. For the ones in question, they're asking the FSF.
This is indeed good news, it'd be great to see them listed in GNU.org's list of GNU/Linux distributions. It'll be interesting to see if BLAG survives this, being that one of their main 'selling points' is that they are a Free version of FC (though they do have other good things about them, such as the one CD and the photographic content).
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It would be great to see a major distro like Fedora among those FSF approved. So that sure is great news.
You gotta give RedHat credit for supporting such a project and giving enough freedom of governance to allow for an effort like this.
It seams that now Novell is perssuring with openSUSE, Red Hat is increasingly letting Fedora go wild - in a good way.
Before openSUSE, Fedora was, in my eyes, "that little tech dump of that big redhatted company". then openSUSE came along, more independant than FC...
“I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to,†said Arthur. “it's heartless.â€
“Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten,†said Zaphod.
It's indeed nice to see that more freedom (that in OpenSuSE) brings about positive change in other projects.
after Whistler mentioning it on nuxified.org - will there be any changes in bluecurve licensing ? I really love them icons
“I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to,†said Arthur. “it's heartless.â€
“Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten,†said Zaphod.
They've created a new wiki page to organize all of this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00357.html
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Good to know these good news as I'm a Fedora user, and now feel myself more comfortable using Fedora. :-)
FC6 is still trademark-encumbered.
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Fedora's trademark policies violate none of the above.
Fedora's trademark policies are just:
*If you change the software, change the branding. (Which the FSF has said in the past that this has no contradiction with the free software definition.)
*If you sell copies, you have to warranty the media you sold it on, (which you should do whenever you distribute software).
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