Are packages w/o necessary kernel modules allowed?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 18:56:38 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:59:28PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Then our opions diverge: I think it should be a hard show stopper criterion.
>
> There should not be any room for any "cripple ware" in Fedora nor should  
> Fedora be a stage for "closed source loaders".

So it should apply to pretty much all of Fedora, since Fedora depends
on closed source firmware, BIOSes, microcode and even hardware
designs.

Rich.

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