other repositiries howto and guideline?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 15:39 -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:28 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:22 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > Is it legal to write a gudeline for using 3rd party repositories and
> > > how to configure them?
> > 
> > Not if you want to put it on the Fedora wiki.  If you want to put it on
> > a private web space you own, have at it, but do not link to it from the
> > wiki either.  You can rely on Google to guide people to your page if it
> > is helpful -- people will find it and naturally elevate or lower it
> > appropriately in the rankings.
> Paul, does this mean even documenting the technique of adding a
> 3rd-party repository is not something we want in the Wiki?  Not all
> 3rd-party repositories must consist of non-free or patent-encumbered
> software, even if that is the norm. 

Ah, I see I overreached the question.  You can document how to add a
repository to your configuration, but in documenting, you cannot use as
an example any repository that contains forbidden bits, nor suggest that
this is a way to obtain forbidden bits.  Might I suggest the CBI
(Cooperative Bug Isolation) project?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/ 

This is a totally FOSS way to contribute to the bettering of free
software.

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