Re: D1x license

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:08 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> 
> Yeah, I know it's a pretty common restriction. But, if we want to move more
> of Core to Extras (and I think pretty much everyone agrees we do), and make
> Extras easily selected from anaconda, Extras effectively become part of the
> basic distribution that vendors might want to actually provide. And having a
> single package in Extras with this restriction would then basically restrict
> all of Fedora.
> 

No it doesn't.
It just means vendors need to check which packages from extras they can
(or can not) distribute before burning their CD/DVD set.

However, putting that kind of stuff into rpm.livna.org and leaving
extras with what is _truly_ freely redistributable makes it much easier.