Re: RPM submission procedure

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:37:58PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Perhaps these people should *be* Fedora extras?  Looks to me like the
> community has already evolved a rather well-functioning set of apt
> repositories. and I like the no-single-point-of-failure aspect of what
> they're doing.
> Is there some reason for Fedora not to farm out the extras job to
> people who seem already to be doing it competently?

At least one is "maybe they don't want to be Fedora Extras" and another
in several cases is that they choose to carry material that might not be
allowed in the USA, just the free world. As a US corporation Red Hat is
subject to US law.

Alan