Fedora's way forward

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:19 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>:
> > Because the software would still be in opposition to the goals of the
> > Fedora Project.  MP3 support isn't just on the ForbiddenItems list to
> > annoy people.  Like many others have stated, the project aims to produce
> > a free and open source Linux distribution that is redistributable by
> > all.  Having a paid-up royalty for a proprietary technology just so we
> > can include it in the distribution defeats the main goal.
> 
> See my suggestion about a pointer to a (hypothetical) lame-hosted yum 
> repository.

Ask your wife about "contributory infringement".

-- 
  Peter