The Multimedia Question

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 19 21:42:31 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 02:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>> that's the issue - we can tell them how to add repos, sure.
>>> but we can't say which repos to add
>>> and if there are repos that are full of free and legally-unencumbered
>>> software then the question becomes why aren't they in fedora?
>> They could be in Fedora but the legality of such software is region 
>> specific. If we want to maintain those packages in specific regions as 
>> part of Fedora and that is considered legally safe, we could do that 
>> instead. In fact I think that's better than a third party repository 
>> solution because we would be using the similar infrastructure and 
>> guarantee things more because we are in control.
> 
> Our CVS and buildsystems are hosted in the US.  Explain to me how
> something can be called Fedora if it's not in our CVS and built with our
> tools?

We setup systems with similar infrastructure outside of US. Since it is 
going to be maintained by Fedora contributors, we can call it Fedora.

Rahul




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