Help with Fedora's criteria for project imports?

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Margaret Lum wrote:

> I'm concerned about the prospect of submitting requests for approval to 
> import our sanitized components, but being rejected for non-licensing issues. 
> Technically, I believe we have our ducks in a row, but the "legal stuff" is 
> where a nebulous cloud currently hangs.
>
> Rex offered to help us out, so I'm going to speak with him. I know that we 
> need to have our licenses updated to (L)GPL, be package-able through Koji, 
> have all the necessary mailing lists, groups, ACLs, remove 
> branded-proprietary code (we came from Netscape/AOL and have government 
> contracts), adopt the Fedora development process, and likely exclude signing 
> from our releng process (until there's a RH-sponsored non-ncipher possibility 
> in the near future). What I'm wondering is -- what else is there?

Rex will definitely be able to help you along -- but really, I don't think 
there is much else.  So long as the code is under an approved license, the 
RPMs are packaged according to the guidelines, and your team sticks around 
to maintain the packages, there really *shouldn't* be much else.  Any 
legal issues remaining are likely to be inside the RH fenceline, not in 
Fedora-land.

--g

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