Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

[Robert E. Martin, VCM Network]

I am somewhat confused.  I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a free
license, which included the applications in the repositories.  What am I
missing?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Wolff III [mailto:bruno at wolff.to] 
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:14 AM
To: Craig White
Cc: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:09:21 -0700,
  Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> Actually, I found these to be rather easy to handle when I set up my own
> repositories using mrepo and each computer was installed via kickstart
> which configured it to use the local repo(s) which also included some of
> the then Livna (now rpmfusion) in a special repo which also included
> Adobe packages.

The problem isn't easy of use, its risking your clients getting sued for
practicing a patent without licensing it. And libdvdcss subjects you to
potential criminal liability. (And not just your clients, trafficing in
circumvention tools is a crime as well as using them in some juristictions.)

While it's likely a home user would be overlooked, if you start doing this
stuff for busniesses on a medium to large scale, you may draw some attention
to yourself.