RPM submission procedure

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:46, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Aren't there a number of countries that are leaking into the
'not-freeworld' group other than just the US. I thought some other
western nations were doing equally stupid legislation. 

I might be just losing my mind.

-sv