Linux.com: Fedora Cleans its Repositories, Considers Move to Free Software

“The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project is undergoing several
changes before the release of its next version. In preparation for
Fedora 7, which will fuse the Core and Extra software repositories,
Fedora’s developers are auditing the repositories for non-free and
non-open software that doesn’t meet the project’s guidelines.
Eventually, the project may change its package guidelines to only
allow Free Software.

“Following a message from Michael Tiemann, Red Hat’s vice
president of open source affairs, to the Fedora Advisory Board
mailing list in April 2006, board member Rahul Sundaram and Fedora
developer Tom Callaway initiated a licensing audit of Fedora. After
a strenuous scanning process, several changes were made to the Core
repository to make Fedora compliant with its own packaging
guidelines. ‘What we did before Fedora Core 6,’ says Sundaram, ‘is
go through the entire Fedora Core packages to make sure we are
compliant with our own guidelines, since many of these packages
were inherited from Red Hat Linux during the project launch a few
years back…'”

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