Proposal: Rolling Release
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 11 14:20:58 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
There's the part about never
> including references to any of these 3rd party resources in the distro
> so users are forced to discover them on their own and hope they pick the
> right one, since they conflict with each other.
This has been explained many times before. Pointing to third party
repositories/ explaining what they provide is a *legal* issue. Pretty
much all of them include free but patent encumbered code. Ubuntu is
legally based in Isle of Man and has different legal restrictions. Even
they cannot point to any repository that includes libdvdcss for example.
You have to use a third party repository (medubuntu) which Canonical/
official ubuntu websites are careful not to point to.
Rahul
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