[fab] Fedora as Free Software?

[Michael Tiemann]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> I was corresponding with RMS earlier after a brief discussion in the
> earlier advisors list and he brought in the point that the current
> guidelines allow open source licenses which FSF consider's non-free. A
> mail to licensing at gnu.org will get FSF to evaluate a license an a post
> will be made to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html on FSF's
> opinion. There have been apprehensions about getting into political
> maneuvering which is valid concern to a good extend but this is
> something worth exploring.

I think that what we've seen from Matt Domsch's email is that there are
more licenses in Fedora that are not even OSI-compliant than are in the
zone of "OSI-certified but non-free".  If we clean our house to follow
our own more explicit guidelines, we get free for free.

M