According to The Register, Red Hat are doing something about the proliferation of non-free software trying to claim itself as ‘Open Source’, merely because source code is available.
It looks like Michael Tiemann (one of the guys behind Cygnus – one of the first Free Software companies) and his plan to clean this mess up is working. Better, Michael spoke of ‘freedom’ when talking about this in a recent blog entry.
Things are starting to come together. Now, we just need a patch to remove ESR from the tree.