Am Do, den 22.07.2004 um 11:59 Uhr -0700 schrieb Jonathan Gardner:
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 04:01 am, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> IMHO Fedora needs a special application that assist you at downloading
> things (like this firmware) and then builds RPMs from the files
> automatically.
No, we need to put pressure on these software writers to license their code
responsibly. Or we need to buy other kinds of hardware.
Maybe. But it is often not only the firmware for hardware. I often hear
people say "Fedora does not have RPMS for Acrobat Reader and Suns-Java?
Suse has, Fedora sucks!"
Yes I know then there are repositories that have these RPMS -- but AFAIK
the licenses of this softare this is not legal (at least in case of the
acrobat reader -- not sure about suns java).
An of course, solve this problem otherwise (like a redistribution
license for
livna.org or something like that) is of course the best
solution.
CU
thl