We might be in hot water still, but at least liability could possibly not be claimed if it is in the Terms of Use of this community list of repositories... <div>On 9/12/07, Casey Dahlin <<a href="mailto:cjdahlin@ncsu.edu">cjdahlin@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> King InuYasha wrote: > Unfortunately, because Red Hat IS a USA-based company, they (and all > us Americans) cannot make a distro available that is directly > connected in ANY fashion to repositories containing patented > technologies that do not have an license explicitly stating that there > will be no repercussions for such aforementioned inclusion scenarios > to be applied. This is why Fedora has such a bad rep (I am not saying > it is a bad distro, I use it for everything!) with uninformed people > (people making the choice of using Linux for the first time). Though I > think CodecBuddy NEEDS support for reading through repositories to > find codecs because there ARE Free codecs not in the Fedora DVD by > default and should be able to be detected and installed. > Maybe web2.0 is the solution :) . What if we have a way to query a list of repos that is stored on a central site that can be appended to by anyone? Then we might be able to disclaim responsibility for pointing it out. > On 9/12/07, *Tom spot Callaway* <<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com"> tcallawa@redhat.com</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">tcallawa@redhat.com</a>>> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Or - why not move the entire repo to places that can have all the > > contents? What's the point of even worrying about this issue? > > It's not where the repo sits, its where Red Hat is based out of. > > ~spot > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> > <<a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a>> > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>