On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> This isn't a settled question in Fedora, and it's one that people feel very
> passionate about in both sides. In the end, we decided that allowing the
> experiment was worthwhile _as a means to the eventual end_. This is why
> there's a section about free and open source software in the third party
> policy, and why it includes the line "Wherever available, free and open
> source alternatives are listed and users are encouraged to prefer these to
> their restricted counterparts."

... and this should go without saying but it doesn't hurt to say it: Fedora
is always going to be a free and open source software project, and we're not
producing a distribution which includes proprietary software (with the
exception of the firmware exception we've had for basically forever).
Nothing around that is changing and I can't imagine it changing.


-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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