Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Apr 10 11:43:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:31:38 -0300 (ART)
Martin Marques <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:46:25PM -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> >> No it has something to do with the function not being open
> >> source or something like that. It was on another mailing
> >
> > That's not "stripped", that's "can't legally include".
> 
> Then why isn't there a non-free repo, like Debian has?

There are people who maintain a non-free (and also 'free but not
in the USSA') repository. The 2600 case in the USA says Red Hat even
giving you the URL to this might be considered an offence. You'll
therefore have to ask someone else.

Alan




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