Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Tue Apr 10 03:29:50 UTC 2007

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:48 -0400, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> It is stripped because it was there from the source. Can't 
> legally include is just their opinion.
"Can't legally include" is the determination of the software by Red
Hat's legal team. When it comes to things of this nature, I for one
trust them and value their opinion quite a great deal. 

> The cool thing is I can override their opinion and put it 
> back the way the developers provided it for all to use as 
> we decide too.
Great, but if you redistribute that be prepared for potential legal
troubles...
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