[fab] Fedora as Free Software?
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sat Apr 22 00:08:26 UTC 2006
> I'm wondering what you guys think about changing the tilt of Fedora from
> open source to free software. Namely, saying that the license should
> meet the free software definition (
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and then mentioning that
> OSI-certified licenses (with the exception of the Reciprocal Public
> License, which we're going to reevaluate) are a good list, as well as
> the free software licenses that are listed on the FSF website.
>
> The goal is to make Fedora a distribution that the FSF can positively
> endorse. I think we're really close. Any reason to not try to go all
> the way?
Do we have an idea of what we would need to drop to be completely free
software definition compliant?
What would we lose?
I guess a few rpm queries on license should work.
what licenses are we looking for?
-sv
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