Legal update

[Bill Nottingham]

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.

Bill