On 26.02.2007 14:27, seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 04:29 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2007, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> 1) Firmware packages are given the Group: tag of Firmware
>> 2) The License tag for any firmware that disallows modification should
>> be set to:
>> "Redistributable firmware, no modification permitted"
> Any chance of getting all non-Free firmware to Require: some empty
> package (say freedom-loss or proprietary-crap :-) such that:
> - one could yum erase this package and end up without any non-Free
> Software installed, and
> - one could easily veirfy that custom distros with a subset of the
> complete Fedora package set don't include any such proprietary
> packages?
I actually like this idea.
+1 -- but the kernel IIRC includes a lot of firmware files directly. Are
there any efforts to strip those out?
CU
thl