kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 20:23:10 UTC 2008
On Mar 25, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Similarly, you can choose to incrementally move things out of the
> kernel which judging from this thread is a approach that Fedora can
> work with without having to introduce a new kernel.
But this doesn't get me a kernel I can distribute today. Or a kernel
I can use today. Or a kernel that could go in Fedora 9.
> Just look at the mess with a separate xen kernel to understand this.
I do understand it, and I realize it's a very different issue.
Removing code, as done in kernel-libre, is *much* easier than
forward-porting large patches.
And then, how would I post patches upstream that remove the offending
bits from upstream without re-distributing the very offending bits I
find it immoral to distribute in the first place? That's why won't
even distribute a patch from original to modified sources: it contains
the non-Free bits in /^-/ lines. That's a line I'm not willing to
cross.
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