Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
The packages are in rpmforge so help yourself. They probably belong in Extras anyway (upstream has them in their Supplementary channel).
we cant just add everything from Red Hat's supplimentary sections to CentOS - most of those packages ( I still seem to be under the impression that all of them ) are in Supplimentary since Red Hat are not allowed to make them public, and in 9 times out of 10 it will be due to license restrictions.
Presumably they make them available to anyone with a RHN subscription otherwise why would the channel exist, and they are perfectly entitled to redistribute them (the Intel firmwares) if they want under the terms of the Intel license. My assumption was that RH only distributes as part of the main distro stuff that is open source/GPL or whatever (I don't believe the source is available for these binary firmwares).
I don't know what else is in Supplementary so can't comment on that, but my guess is it's mostly closed source binary distributables (eg, Acrobat Reader, flash-plugin, RealPlayer, Java? etc) that RH can't ship as part of a fully open source distro.