Codec buddy and Free software

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Jul 18 15:07:09 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:06 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 20:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to get comments on whether folks here are favorable to 
> > pointing to a third party repository from codec buddy (with appropriate 
> > warnings and disclaimers). If this is considered something we wanted to 
> > do we will consult with Red Hat legal to verify that is a legally safe 
> > choice for us. Comments?
> 
> I would want to see something in writing from Mark Webbink saying it's
> legally OK for Fedora to do before we even begin discussing it.  We are
> not lawyers and this exercise is pointless if legal says no.  
> 


+1

not to mention having to constrain the 3rd party repos to make sure
nothing else that's quasi-legal goes in.

-sv





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