Legal update

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>>> Linking to "third party repositories": Legal says that we can link, from
>>> the Fedora website, to third party repositories, so long as no one has
>>> made a critical assessment to determine that a patent or patents cover
>>> the technology in question and no party has actually asserted their
>>> patents against the technology, we should be okay. Once we are on notice
>>> of a claim of infringement or are aware of a competent assessment that
>>> concludes infringement is likely, we would need to take the link down or
>>> run a serious risk of facing a claim for inducing infringement.  Merely
>>> linking would be highly unlikely to subject us to a claim of direct
>>> infringement. I asked about MP3, and it was stated that unless we are
>>> specifically aware of the MP3 patent holders asserting a claim against
>>> the technology, we are still okay.
>> So the real question now that Red Hat Legal is ok with it is whether we in 
>> the Fedora Project should be doing it?
>>
>> I think we should link to RPM Fusion (the free part) in the future if and 
>> when it's up and running from codeina
> 
> ... in what way? The codeina codec list is included in the packaging.

In the initial dialog box perhaps? I don't know what would be the most 
appropriate thing to do.

Rahul