Announcing rpmfusion

[Rahul Sundaram]

Richi Plana wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I am not talking about any repo files. Just a pointer in documentation 
>> or in any application. The details are explained in FAB list. That 
>> requires Legal to look into this. No amount of layman arguments can help 
>> us make a decision and legal perspectives doesn't always make logical 
>> sense which many tend to assume.
> 
> In other words, Fedora's lawyers have deemed it risky (or even downright
> illegal) to include in the distro .repo files that would allow users to
> download, say, US-illegal codecs even if the repository itself
> physically and logistically isn't connected to Fedora. But pointers in
> documents can.
> 
> There we go. That's what the legal experts are saying. Do I have it
> about right?

We do not know yet if pointers to a repository are ok since the legal 
situation has changed.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board/2717

Last time we consulted with legal, it was ok to point a website as long 
as it didn't host directly such a software repository and we didn't 
include information on what to find in such websites (ie) pointing to a 
website like fedorafaq.org is ok as long as we don't tell them "go here 
for mp3 codecs".

Rahul