Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:15:34 +0100
> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
>> This branch in the discussion isn't my beef and I should stick to my 
>> point; giving anyone enough freedom to do whatever it is they want to do 
>> with Fedora, based on Fedora or rebranded FUbuntu for all I care, 
>> without the legal responsibilities of having to host or distribute the 
>> sources or creating any other type of overhead. No-one (individuals and 
>> small projects in particular) should care about GPL-compliance knowing 
>> that someone else has that area covered.
> 
> I think that is a dangerous statement to make.  If you are distributing
> binaries of GPL'd work, you should care about GPL-compliance.  Making
> an assumption that it is handled by someone else is putting their head
> in the sand.
> 
> If Fedora is covering it for them, and they know that, great.  If it
> isn't, or something changes, they should be prepared to get themselves
> back into compliance one way or another.
> 
> I understand your point, but you need to be careful with how you state
> your goal.
> 

When pulled out of context, it doesn't make a very good quote. The 
entire /thread/ is about how I want FP to carry the burden and how the 
individual or small project to be able to rely upon that.

-Jeroen