Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting

[David Smith]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> . Inclusion in Fedora (future and recent past releases) of a
> fedora-freedom "virtual" package, that Requires: linux-libre and
> Conflicts: with any Fedora package known to contain software (firmware
> included) that does not respect the 4 freedoms established in the Free
> Software definition.  AFAIK these would pretty much amount to the
> standard non-Free kernel and a bunch of *-firmware packages, but there
> could be sub-packages to cover other debatable packages with obscure
> source code, dubious licensing policies, etc.

Here's a (possibly bad) idea to think about.  Write a yum plugin that
refuses to install packages that have licensing policies you object to.
 That sounds much easier to deal with than trying to keep your virtual
package up to date with new packages continually being added to the
repository.

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