Fedora LiveCD : Looking for Betatesters - Port of redhat 9.0base to fedora core 1 / Legal issue Discussion

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:03:46AM -0500, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Again there are going to be issues with calling anything 'Fedora.'
> There is clearly a place and a demand for a 'freeworld' shadow community
> process and repository structure that builds on top of
> the base Fedora process to provide open-source solutions that a US based
> organization is prohibited from providing for non-technical reasons. But
> for the same non-technical reasons, it will be very difficult for the
> official Fedora process to even link or to talk about the 'freeworld'
> structure that springs up.   
 
Easily solved by a level of indirection.  Simply bless a *canonical*
search string (e.g. "Fedora-compatible") for finding Fedora-related
resources, encourage site operators to use it, and leave it up to the
users to find them.  A Fedora free world web ring might also have some
value.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky