other repositiries howto and guideline?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
<abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> 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.
>>
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>
>
> Why? Because of the laws in US? Isn't this similar to issue with
> posting source code of DeCSS? Isn't that covered by the 1st amendment
> and the freedom of speech?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent
> .
>
> Valent, because the Fedora Project is hosted, both in terms of software as
> well as an organization in the US, US laws are in effect and must be
> followed.

I understand that, and I understand that I can't expect fedora to have
mp3 decoder on their hosted servers but I thought you have freedom of
speech, no? Weren't there some court cases that said that you can
write anything? Is it illegal to put this on the fedora wiki:


"rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm"

or it I leave that line out is this illegal:

"yum install -y gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad"

Why?

Cheers,
Valent.

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