Announcing rpmfusion

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Rahul Sundaram 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.
> 

Seriously though, this is just plain dumb wrong:

If we cannot include the packages in our own repositories but we can 
point to other repositories that do have the packages, nothing prevents 
us from distributing the appropriate /etc/yum.repos.d/ files in the 
fedora-release package.

So, I'll back up Jesse's question:
 >> And really, if we could reference it, then why the crap couldn't we
 >> just package it in our repo?

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