Announcing rpmfusion

[Rahul Sundaram]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:02:40 +0000 (UTC)
>>> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>>>>> Thanks for this split. Hopefully we will able to link to the free
>>>>> part from within Fedora.
>>>> Unfortunately I don't think you will be able to. The stuff in the
>>>> free part (or most of it, at least) is going to be exactly the stuff
>>>> which Legal is most uncomfortable with: Free Software, but
>>>> patent-encumbered in the US.
>>> And really, if we could reference it, then why the crap couldn't we
>>> just package it in our repo?
>> There is a lot of differences between pointing to the repository and
>> including the packages directly as I already explained in Fedora
>> Advisory Board list so I won't rehash all the arguments again now.
>> Please read the releated threads if you missed it. In short, it is not
>> possible to include patent-encumbered packages directly in the
>> repository as long as it hosted in US. Pointing to it might very well be
>> possible.
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> Yes! I cought a bit late on this thread but I can't be happier!
> I started a threat that asked this exact question: why doesn't fedora
> link to external repositories after users agreeing to some sort of
> ULA.
> 
> What is the update on this topic? 

We are still waiting on legal input.

Rahul