LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise

[Rex Dieter]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> Atleast in Fedora the division is clearly documented in the
>> packaging guidelines.
> 
> Which is and has always been incompatible with the stated goals of the
> Fedora project.

It may be worth pointing out here that Fedora currently only includes 
objectives/packaging-guidelines to be opensource/redistributable, not 
necessarily (100%) free, and wrt *this* conversation, the Board 
considered firmware to be an acceptable exception(1).

-- Rex

(1) redistributability was considered good enough (for now), notably 
because firmware is tied to hardware, and doesn't run on the host cpu.