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[Rahul]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>> Looks like we have a fork brewing anyway.
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> Internal to Fedora/RH or a complete fork?
>

Preferably a cross distribution coordinated fork like Xorg.

A little background on what happened.

Jonathan Corbet of LWN pointed out a license incompatibility

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-August/msg00220.html

I forwarded this mail to Fedora Advisory Board list since the Red Hat 
counsel is in that list

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00201.html

LWN article (subscribers only for another week) explaining the details 
at http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/

Tom Callaway is doing a licensing audit  initiated by a previous Fedora 
board discussion 
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00227.html) 
  of non-free and software with licensing issues in Fedora and filed a 
bug report against cdrtools pointing out this issue

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202526

There are few potential forks here such as

http://www.arklinux.org/projects/dvdrtools

For FC6, the idea is to go back to the last known good source and stick 
with it till we figure out the plans better.


Rahul