to autodownload or not to autodownload

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Feb 8, 2008 2:07 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> There were this kind of discussions before and came to same
> conclusion, but you are all not mentioning one thing that I believe is
> really important - and that it can be legal (maybe it already is) in
> Fedora to link to outside sources without Fedora being held for
> infringement.
> Has anybody checked with Fedora Legal what is the status of that?
>

Yes, several times.. and I believe that the answer has always been
"yes it is illegal by way of contributary infringement".

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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