{"id":67,"date":"2004-03-13T01:54:27","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T06:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=67"},"modified":"2004-03-13T01:54:27","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T06:54:27","slug":"fedora-and-non-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/13\/fedora-and-non-free","title":{"rendered":"Fedora and non-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Debian folk are now bickering over whether their non-free software archive should exist, or whether folks need to add them by themselves. Joey Hess wrote up his thoughts on why <a href=\"http:\/\/kitenet.net\/~joey\/blog\/entry\/how_i_voted_on_non-free_and_why-2004-03-12-18-52.html\">he voted against keeping non-free around<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which got me thinking. Currently, The Fedora Project has got <a href=\"http:\/\/fedora.redhat.com\/about\/objectives.html\">a set of objectives<\/a> that promotes the fact that we build the system exclusively from open source software. Then you&#8217;d think of using either <a href=\"http:\/\/fedora.redhat.com\/participate\/terminology.html\">Fedora Extras or Alternatives<\/a> right?<\/p>\n<p>But even there, in the terminology it states that we use open source software. As long as we realise that after the mega-merger of all 3rd party RPM sites, sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/dag.wieers.com\/home-made\/apt\/\">Dag&#8217;s<\/a> and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/sluglug.ucsc.edu\/macromedia\/site_ucsc.html\">macromedia<\/a> sites stay alive. We can preach open source software, but the other archives offering not-so-open source software, must still exist.<\/p>\n<p>So clearly, since Red Hat will host Fedora Extras soon, non-free stuff will have to be in Fedora Alternatives, no?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Fedora%20and%20non-free&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F03%2F13%2Ffedora-and-non-free&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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