Re: Red Hat legal speaks

[Marc Wiriadisastra <marc mwiriadi id au>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 03:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The question on DMCA and iPod's and linking to third party repositories 
> has been answered and we indeed can now do that if we wanted to, with 
> some caveats. Can't use this as a alternative source for codecs in codec 
> buddy in a direct way but getting this clarification does help. Thanks 
> to Spot for running my questions through Red Hat Legal.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/257559/rss
> 
> "The Fedora advisory board has just been updated on a couple of 
> conclusions reached by the Red Hat legal department. It has been 
> determined that support for current iPod devices can be provided by 
> Fedora - getting around Apple's obfuscation is not seen as a DMCA 
> violation. The rules on linking to encumbered software have also been 
> loosened"
> 
> Rahul
> 

Dig.... http://digg.com/linux_unix/Red_Hat_Legal_Speaks_about_MP3_s

Marc