Announcing Dribble a new addon repo for Fedora Extras users

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> Its an emulator and in general emulators are not welcomed in Extras
> unless supported / officially sanctioned by the hardware company who's
> hardware is being implemented. There are various reasons for this,
> patent fears, DMCA fears, contributory copyright infringements fears etc.

I believe the rule of thumb here is that if we have freely 
redistributable "data" that runs on these emulators, we can include the 
emulator in extras. In other words, the question to ask yourself, is 
there any legal and Free software uses for the emulators?

> 
> With that said if you can get an ok on this from Legal (or someone equal
> ) then we (the Dribble crew) will move it to FE. Anything in Dribble
> which is / can be ok-ed for Extras will be moved there, we strive to
> complete Extras not compete with Extras.

You should bring up discussions on a case by case basis to this list.

Rahul