Red Hat legal speaks
Marc Wiriadisastra
marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Wed Nov 7 22:22:54 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 03:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The question on DMCA and iPod's and linking to third party repositories
> has been answered and we indeed can now do that if we wanted to, with
> some caveats. Can't use this as a alternative source for codecs in codec
> buddy in a direct way but getting this clarification does help. Thanks
> to Spot for running my questions through Red Hat Legal.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/257559/rss
>
> "The Fedora advisory board has just been updated on a couple of
> conclusions reached by the Red Hat legal department. It has been
> determined that support for current iPod devices can be provided by
> Fedora - getting around Apple's obfuscation is not seen as a DMCA
> violation. The rules on linking to encumbered software have also been
> loosened"
>
> Rahul
>
Dig.... http://digg.com/linux_unix/Red_Hat_Legal_Speaks_about_MP3_s
Marc
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