The Multimedia Question

[Rex Dieter]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> Third party repository containing only Free but patent encumbered 
>> software hosted outside of US in a region not affected by software 
>> patents and in resources provided external to Red Hat. 
> 
> That definition fails.  And it fails completely.  If it is a Third party
> repository, you cannot control what other software is put in it.
> 
> If you _can_ control what else gets put into it, then it's not really a
> Third party repo.

third party in this case = not owned/controlled by Red Hat.
It is/will-be run by a group of trusted fedora contributors who agree to 
abide by whatever rules are required.

If that's not good enough, well, bummer.

-- Rex