the Fedora filters
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Mar 22 03:45:24 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 20:38 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> I'm going to drag firmware and such in here; not because I'm arguing for
> them as a form of software. They are permitted in our distribution in
> ways that either are exceptions or orthogonal to the free filter and the
> open source filter. Or is the argument they are not even part of the
> equation because rule them to be "not software"?
I really don't want to have the religious argument, so let me just say
that we treat firmware as a special exception to the rules.
I'd have to draw a flow chart to explain it, and email is a very poor
medium for this. Firmware isn't the only exception, some specific
content is also handled under less stringent restrictions than software.
~spot
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