a legal way to include 3rd party repositories in fedora?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Jul 6 14:39:12 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:32:56AM -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> Even if it wasn't contributory infringement, Fedora isn't about building
> a great OS using whatever software happens to work, Fedora is about
> building a great OS with free and open source software.  Making it
> easier to install non-FOSS sofware is contrary to that goal.

And that's why we bend over backwards to provide multilib. :)

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