Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Jul 4 09:29:39 UTC 2007


On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:09:42 +0000 (UTC)
Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:17:12 -0700, David Boles wrote:
> 
> 
> > I am not with Fedora but just a Fedora user for a long time. Fedora has
> > said this has to do with USA laws *and* company policy to only provide
> > FOSS. Which I think is a really goo thig.None of the third party sites
> > that I, myself, know of are in the USA. You can read that as you wish.
> 
> Well, now I'm curious.  What possible US law could apply?  Aside from GPL 
> issues none come to mind.  Do you have more specific info?

See 2600 Magazine v USA (the decision over linking to DeCSS)

It's a common confusion that the US has "free speech". The US has "free
political speech" (mostly) and the two are quite different.

Alan




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