The Multimedia Question

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:09 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 02:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > In practical terms, I don't need to control a repository to be aware 
> > what goes into it according to their explicitly written guidelines by 
> > Fedora contributors outside of Red Hat.  It is possible that someone 
> > might sneak in a package that violates the guidelines in a official or 
> > third party repository. Either would be considered a bug and fixed.  If 
> > absolute control is necessary you cannot point to a third party 
> > repository at all but that is up to Legal to decide.
> > 
> but that's just it. if someone puts that in a repository then it could
> be a serious poison pill. If it is enough to get red hat sued then even
> if it bears out that rh acted appropriately by getting the problem fixed
> I can relatively guarantee that will be the LAST time we ever get to try
> that.
> 
> 
> > If that level of control is desirable, it needn't be a third party 
> > repository but a Fedora repository built and hosted in external (to Red 
> > Hat) systems in regions that don't enforce software patents by Fedora 
> > contributors.
> 
> but is red hat complicit in maintaining this? Or a red hat employee?
> Does 'the company' know about this or is this a 'wink, wink, nudge,
> nudge, say no more, say no more' sort of thing?
> 
> If it is the latter then I think we're at full, dead, stop w/o legal
> counsel.

+10.

josh