Legal update

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 14:35:35 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 08:42 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 13:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > >> I think we should link to RPM Fusion (the free part) in the future if and 
> > >> when it's up and running from codeina
> > > 
> > > ... in what way? The codeina codec list is included in the packaging.
> > 
> > In the initial dialog box perhaps? I don't know what would be the most 
> > appropriate thing to do.
> 
> You cannot link to livna/RPM Fusion from within a package, RH Legal was
> very clear on that. You can link to the Fedoraproject.org page that
> links to it, but not directly to it.

Any such fp.o page, then, should be concise and emphasize the importance
of free formats once again.  Making the change to codeina in this case
is pretty trivial once that page is up to snuff.

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