The Multimedia Question
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Jul 19 21:00:10 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:58 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.
>
I think that group of contributors need to not WORK for red hat either.
-sv
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