The Multimedia Question

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:24:01 -0600
> "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/19/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> No you can't. Fedora is a sponsored project by Red Hat. Thus Red Hat
>> could be held libel for the actions of something called Fedora that is
>> acting under the auspices of that sponsored organization. We are back
>> to needing legal counsel before this would be able to go any further
>> (if at all.)

Sure. We are going to ask legal anyway but the question is how can we 
call something Fedora if it's not in our CVS which is not a legal 
question and that is what I was responding to.

> 
> You can't for other reasons.  Built outside of the US using the same
> infrastructure is possible, but in order to call a package "Fedora" we
> have always said it must be built from our CVS.  We can't host those
> packages in our CVS.
> 
> At any rate, get legal involved.

If legal is fine with it then it's a matter of changing the rules so as 
to endorse packages from another cvs or build system which is not hard 
to do if we can trust the contributors involved to do a good job.

Rahul