D1x license
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Apr 29 16:42:14 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:08 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>
> Yeah, I know it's a pretty common restriction. But, if we want to move more
> of Core to Extras (and I think pretty much everyone agrees we do), and make
> Extras easily selected from anaconda, Extras effectively become part of the
> basic distribution that vendors might want to actually provide. And having a
> single package in Extras with this restriction would then basically restrict
> all of Fedora.
>
No it doesn't.
It just means vendors need to check which packages from extras they can
(or can not) distribute before burning their CD/DVD set.
However, putting that kind of stuff into rpm.livna.org and leaving
extras with what is _truly_ freely redistributable makes it much easier.
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