Fedora spin from RpmFusion

[Douglas McClendon]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 >
>(The following really has been asked and answered in numerous times 
>before...)


But technology and published legal guidelines change...


>> C. An respin with no affiliation with Red Hat/Fedora is made that include
>>    the "questionable packages and repos" and the user does not have to
>>    do any work from his half ( work out of the box solution )
> 
> If this is done, it should be rebranded and not called Fedora.


'should' is one of those words...

By my reading of the current trademark guidelines (before they 
disappeared from

http://rhold.fedoraproject.org/About/legal/trademarks/guidelines/

it is totally possible (with a little initrd guru-dom) to repackage the 
fedora-8-livecd iso (other isos too, but I'll use this as an example), 
such that mp3 and rpmfusion(or other arbitrary repos) work 'out of the box'.

Just make a new iso, that contains the old iso as is, with a new initrd 
and bootloader, that present the user with two choices-

a) "boot the official unmodified fedora-8-live image"

or

b) "boot the official fedora-8-live image, patched with mp3 support and 
software repository configuration that the fedora organization does not 
support or condone in any way"


> 
>> Software that is/has been developed that can be misused to break "laws"
>> tho it's initial creation and function of the software was never indented
>> to do so will never be included in Red Hat/Fedora
>> ( Even tho that package is gpl and source is made publicly available )
>> made available, in Red Hat/Fedora
>>
>> Just so things can be settled..
> 
> If the software is infringing patents, it cannot be included regardless 
> of it's copyright license.

Given that the fedora trademark guidelines allow the above (seriously 
they do, I was very surprised when I read them myself), and given that 
some individuals and organizations may live in different countries, or 
have lawyers that come to different conclusions about what laws their 
country permits, I think the above should make everyone happy.

No, such software compositions as described above would not be hosted by 
fedora, but hey, that's what bittorrent is for...

-dmc

(P.S.- please rel-eng-team, keep the official livecd iso as far under 
700M as possible, wink wink, nudge nudge...)