Announcing rpmfusion

[King InuYasha]

We might be in hot water still, but at least liability could possibly not be
claimed if it is in the Terms of Use of this community list of
repositories...

On 9/12/07, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> King InuYasha wrote:
> > Unfortunately, because Red Hat IS a USA-based company, they (and all
> > us Americans) cannot make a distro available that is directly
> > connected in ANY fashion to repositories containing patented
> > technologies that do not have an license explicitly stating that there
> > will be no repercussions for such aforementioned inclusion scenarios
> > to be applied. This is why Fedora has such a bad rep (I am not saying
> > it is a bad distro, I use it for everything!) with uninformed people
> > (people making the choice of using Linux for the first time). Though I
> > think CodecBuddy NEEDS support for reading through repositories to
> > find codecs because there ARE Free codecs not in the Fedora DVD by
> > default and should be able to be detected and installed.
> >
> Maybe web2.0 is the solution :) . What if we have a way to query a list
> of repos that is stored on a central site that can be appended to by
> anyone? Then we might be able to disclaim responsibility for pointing it
> out.
> > On 9/12/07, *Tom spot Callaway* <tcallawa at redhat.com
> > <mailto:tcallawa at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> >     > Or - why not move the entire repo to places that can have all the
> >     > contents?  What's the point of even worrying about this issue?
> >
> >     It's not where the repo sits, its where Red Hat is based out of.
> >
> >     ~spot
> >
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