packages without internet source in fedora

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:07 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > [...] (having to sign the Fedora CLA [to get access to
> > fedorahosted]
> 
> indeed, that is the problem.
> 
> FSF often askes contributors to transfer the copyrights to them.
> And it is controversial, and FSF has to accept exceptions in some
> cases.
> And FSF is a non-profit, whose stated goal is to promote free
> software.
> 
> Why should people have this level of trust to Red Hat, Inc., whose
> stated goal is to generate maximal profit for the shareholders?
> 
> So it seems that to lower the enter barrier, we should _not_ use FAS
> for fedorahosted.org.
> 
> Alternatively (and that's something which can be done right now),
> upstream should find some other site.

No one is asking you to sign the rights for the software over to red
hat. The CLA doesn't ask that at all.

Read it more carefully.

-sv