Non-free Extras?

[Rudolf Kastl]

2006/2/22, Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan at gmail.com>:
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> On 2/22/06, Avi Kivity <avi at argo.co.il> wrote:
> > Goede, J.W.R. de wrote:
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> > >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
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> > >
> > We would also need
> > -Fedora for Non-Lawyers
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> > 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.
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> Is there a way of including proprietary drivers with the Fedora Project?  In
> time, Nvidia, ATI et al will definitely have the best available linux
> drivers for their hardware so it seems inevitable that proprietary drivers
> will have to be included in Fedora.
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> They're giving away their drivers for free anyways.
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> Benji

Those drivers taint the kernel and theres no source... also those
drivers are not free as in freedom but rather free as in beer...
How are fedora kernel maintainers/developers are going to support
those modules if they dont even have the source?
We (the zealots) want free drivers as part of the standard kernel.
Tell nvidia and ati to get their drivers upstream, its as easy as that
;))).

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

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