Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?
Nils Philippsen
nils at redhat.com
Fri Sep 19 09:37:12 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:58 -0400, jude ui wrote:
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> On 9/17/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> jude ui wrote:
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> Might want to take a look at
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> http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html
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> Rahul
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> Why is there the source for firmware?
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> >Sorry. I am not sure what that means.
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> Rahul
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> Thanks for the link - but it's debian-I thought we were
> talking about Fedora here
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> And to repharse my question - Can't you guys reselse the firmware as
"release"?
> opensource - are they prosperity drivers? (correct me if I'm wrong)
"proprietary"?
If I understand you correctly(*), then yes, most (all?) firmware is
proprietary software for which we don't have the source code.
(*): It's a bit hard to answer questions where you have to guess what is
asked ;-).
Nils
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