New extra packages and yum repository

[Dan Goodes]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I'm a bit mixed feeling about this.  On one side, I'm kindof a 
> > > bit curious as to wether the rss screensavers are 100% copyright 
> > > clean, and comments on their website or in the source before 
> > > triggered my legal warning alarm, although I have no idea what it 
> > > was now as that was a year or more ago.
> > 
> > It would certainly be important to check permission. There are other tools
> > shipped which use web data from third parties but checking they have
> > permission statements allowing it is important.
> > 
> > (One obvious example for RSS is evolution)
> 
> The rss in rss-glx has nothing to do with the RSS protocol, AFAIK.

Indeed - IIRC it's "Really Slick Savers" as in the Xscreensaver port of 
the Wind0ws "Really Slick Savers" screensaver.

-Dan