[Ambassadors] Fedora Local Language Spins

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 25 20:32:13 UTC 2008


Juan Rodriguez wrote:

> Regardless of the situation in Mexico the question is still valid, would 
> it be allowed to release a spin that includes codecs and whatnot that 
> could not be included in the official Fedora repositories due to patents?

AFAIK, no. Official spins can only be subsets of whatever is included in 
the official Fedora repository and since Red Hat is the legal entity 
behind Fedora, any software included within Fedora needs to be legal in U.S

Rahul




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