The Fedora Project is a center for innovation in free and open source
software. In our community,contributors of all kinds come together to
advance the ecosystem for the benefit of everyone. The Fedora community
contributes everything it builds back to the free and open source world
and continues to make advances of significance to the broader community,
as evidenced by the regular and rapid incorporation of its features into
other Linux distributions. Regardless of which Linux distribution you
use, you are relying on code developed within the Fedora Project.
We believe software patents
are harmful, a hindrance to innovation in software development, and are
inconsistent with the values of free and open source software. While tightly
integrating proprietary and patent encumbered components might superficially
improve ease of use, this practice does not benefit the community in the
long run. The Fedora community prefers approaches that benefit the progress
of free software in the future over those that emphasize short term ease of
use.