Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Bjoern Schiessle bes at schiessle.org
Sun Jul 13 14:11:03 UTC 2008


"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>   wireless firmware inclusion?  in what way?  AFAIK, you still have to
> download the broadcom drivers after the fact.  has that changed while
> i wasn't looking?

i don't know about broadcom but e.g. the firmware for intel wlan devices
is part of Fedora

Here you can find the rules by which non-free firmware is allowed:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines#Binary_Firmware

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