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

[Hikaru Amano]

On 7/4/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> So is this a case that Fedora Board and fedora devels don't see any
> importance to pursue this issue?
>
> I believe that if the decision was made to work this out, and if you put
> some of your smartest people to work on this together with lawyers that
> then a solution would be found.
>
> I understand that you have legal boundaries but there are legal
> mechanics that allow you to do some things even if that looks hard from
> your point of view.
>
> I'm not saying that you should just drop everything you are doing right
> now and focus all of your attention to solving this issue. I don't
> believe that is that crucial enough - but it would be nice if it was
> resolved.
>
> There are much  important thing that Fedora needs and succeeds in doing
> with each new version.
>
> But you also have to be realistic and acknowledge that people can't use
> Fedora Desktop effectively with out at least few "forbidden fruits" :)
>
> So if users have a real need to use them it would be nice to make it as
> easy as possible for users that want "forbidden items" to use them
> themselves - of course considering your legal boundaries.
>
>
>
> > This does NOT mean it is NOT possible to ship non-GPL'ed SW nor codecs
> > as part of Fedora.
>
> Can you please expand on this just a bit?
>
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yum install revisor

add whatever 3rd party repo's config rpm into the kickstart

release the generated CD/DVD .. just dont name it Fedora

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