FS/OSS license: not quite enough of a requirement

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed May 9 23:42:22 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:33 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> Another possibility is that of restrictive patent licenses, and the
> recent creative patent agreements we recently learned about, such as
> that between Microsoft and Novell.

Restrictive patent licenses don't qualify for Fedora as is.


> Yet another possibility would be trademark agreements that effectively
> limited Fedora users' freedoms.

Trademark or patent agreements are a board issue, but I can't see the
board agreeing to those sorts of things.

~spot




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