Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 16:25 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> If Red Hat Linux had a history of providing additional services to users 
> and thus you expected it to provide a repository for fedora version X, 
> would you subvert that ability by forking some of its existing packages 
> into incompatible versions duplicated into your own repository?

Fedora cannot point to, make reference of, or otherwise "endorse"
software repos external to Fedora's control.  This introduces a legal
risk.  We also can't make use of external packages to build our
dependent packages as this also introduces a security risk to our
buildsystem.  Therefor if it's software that is suitable to be in
Fedora, the only way we can officially provide it for Fedora users is by
having it in Fedora.  This is why we have an open package submission
system and an open build system and an open distribution.  All other
attempts at this game have failed in various ways.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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