to autodownload or not to autodownload

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 18:45:01 UTC 2008


2008/2/8 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:41:01 +0100
> "Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek" <jakub.rusinek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why? gstreamer-plugins-* are opensource...
>
> There is the small matter of contributory infringement.  If it's not
> free enough to be in Fedora, it's not free enough to be in a repo that
> is configured by default in Fedora.
>
> Basically, if Fedora could be pre-configured to be able to install said
> software, it has to be free enough to be /in/ Fedora, in which case it
> can just be in Fedora and not in a secondary repo.


These kind of questions come up often, a clear wiki page may be in order.


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