Fedora's FLOSS principles (was: coverity code checker in Extras)

[Christian Iseli]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:15:25 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Anyway to cut a long story short it boilds down to a matter of
> principles. Ask yourself *why* Fedora has a certain FLOSS ideology
> that disallows for example packaging and shipping of non-FLOSS
> software and the answer will be applying to why Fedora should not be
> using/supporting non-FLOSS in any other way. See also the discussion
> of using non-open media formats on redhat.com. It all spins around a
> chosen core ideology.

In the case of Coverity, I think it all boils down to whether or not
we allow them to file bug reports against Extras packages.

AFAIK, we allow anyone to file bug reports against Extras packages.  How
and through what means the bugs were uncovered has never had any
bearing on the matter.

Why should it matter in the case of Coverity ?

Cheers,
					Christian