Legal update

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:49 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure we cannot offer up a .xml file which configures livna
> >> like you're describing.
> > 
> > FWIW, I can pose this question to RH Legal if we want. Specifically, I
> > can ask:
> > 
> > "Are we permitted to offer a file on the Fedoraproject.org website (not
> > in a package) which would allow Fedora users to enable a third party
> > repository, and install content from it?"
> > 
> > This would cover the .xml files and yum configs, for example.
> 
> That's what SUSE does though they point to separate website which has a 
> xml file that will install a package from another repository and that is 
> being advertised as "one click" install.

We can't directly link to another repository's website from our package.

We can link to a page on fedoraproject.org, which has a link to an .xml
file hosted by that repository. Of course, that's not ideal, you don't
want to hand an .xml file to a user and say "go forth"!

I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but we've been given a very
narrow path to follow, and we need to be careful not to confuse it for a
superhighway.

~spot