Non-free Extras?
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Wed Feb 22 10:56:17 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 05:03 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
>
>
> On 2/22/06, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> wrote:
> Goede, J.W.R. de wrote:
>
> >Talking about solutions and not problems I propose:
> >-Fedora Extras (as is)
> >-Fedora Patent Encumbered (better name) aka
> > Debian non-US
> >-Fedora Non Commercial
> >-Fedora Non Free
> >
> >
> We would also need
> -Fedora for Non-Lawyers
>
> for ordinary users. How is one supposed to figure out where to
> look for
> things, and what all these repositories mean? This should be
> kept simple.
>
> Is there a way of including proprietary drivers with the Fedora
> Project?
since these drivers are rather "shakey" with respect to copyright law
(which is different than the traditional "US Patents" reason for not
including things) I would say "No."
In fact just about all other distros don't do these drivers either, or
not anymore.....
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