Free Software audit update

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Sep 5 12:50:44 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:52 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> IMO, they are exposing a pretty narrow-minded view and attitude.
> Instead, OpenSource needs open minds and open systems, not
> protectionism
> (OSI). 

Ralf, the board asked for an audit and the board decided to take action
based on that audit.  Red Hat had to face some hard decisions due to
that audit and action.  This was not a Red Hat mandated thing, this was
the board's decision which has many non Red Hat folks.  Red Hat would
probably have gone on blissfully ignorant to the licensing issues they
had in their packages.  So while its easy to blame the big Red Hat
target, the more appropriate place would be the board which has
community members and acts on behalf of the community.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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