nvidia thoughts

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 23 21:58:40 UTC 2003


Niels Weber said:
>> [snip]
>> Distributing binary-only drivers is opposed to the goals of the Fedora
>> Project:
>>
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
>> "Build the operating system exclusively from open source software."
> There are other programs in fedora with non OSI compliant licenses, what
> about them?

Could you give some examples?

> I was talking about a different ISO image for a reason. It should be
> marked as a non official ISO that doesn't really belong to fedora and is
> just provided to make installation easier for some people.

Any third party is welcome to do this.  I don't expect Fedora to at all,
because as I said above it is counter to their goals.  I would expect any
bugs causing problems with the Official ISOs AND reported to bugzilla to
be checked out and fixed to the best of the ability of the maintainers..

-- 
William Hooper





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