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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu and freedom?

 

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:52:29 +0000
> Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have another question though: why isn't fedora considered a "free"
>> distribution on the FSF website. I understand why Debian isn't, as it
>> provides the "non-free" repos but Fedora Project itself doesn't have
>> anything like this. (I know livna etc but they're separate from the
>> project).
>>
>> Jon
>>     
>
> Please specify a URL for this question. Where, exactly, does the FSF say this?
>   

Hi sorry, it wasn't actually fsf but gnu.org - linked to from fsf. 
Either way the link is this: 
http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

Although it doesn't expressely exclude Fedora it doesn't include it either.

Thanks,

Jon
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