kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Sun Mar 23 19:41:34 UTC 2008


On Mar 23, 2008, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:42:47AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> But then, even if we create a spin without these firmwares, the kernel
>> still contains non-Free Software.  My goal is to help enable people to
>> create official Fedora spins that don't contain any non-Free Software.

> Will you be shipping them a flash erase for the bios as well ?

How does this even relate with what I'm working on?

The BIOS is not distributed as part of Fedora.

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