a legal way to include 3rd party repositories in fedora?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jul 4 14:12:57 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:05 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 13:04 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > It is not possible for Fedora to include SW
> > * which would violate applicable laws (E.g. US patent laws)
> > * whose licenses impose restrictions which violate Fedora's policies
> > on OSS.
>
> Are your hands completely tied?
Partially. Legal issues are dictated by laws. Policies can be changed
but I don't expect anybody outside of RH will be able to change
something about them.
> I live and work by the moto "Where there is will there is a way."
> Meaning that when you want to do something you find a way to do so.
You mean, you know, somebody who sells heroine or plutonium, so you're
going to package it for Fedora? ;)
Ralf
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