nvidia

[Bruce Byfield]

On Sun, 2007-28-10 at 18:51 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sun October 28 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > >     Is the livna depository going to be standard for all who get F8? If
> > > not who will tell them they need to set it up and how to do that?
> > 
> > Livna will never be a 'standard' include with Fedora, Karl. It contains 
> > packages which some lawyers argue are in violation of U.S. Copyright laws.
> 
> I think its actually US patent laws that are the problem.
> 
> -- 

According to Max Spevack, the Fedora chair, the project is legally part
of Red Hat, and must follow US import laws. To protect itself, and at
the advice of Red Hat's lawyers, the project cannot even refer in
release notes to repositories like livna that contain packages of
dubious legality such as lame. If it did, it might technically run afoul
of those import laws.
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