Off shore Respins of F8

[Rahul Sundaram]

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Since F8 is put together in the USA, Red Hat is legally obligated to not 
> include licensed "multi-media codecs".
> 
> However, in some jurisdictions, this illegality disappears. Therefore, 
> if some enterprising individules living in one of those jurisdictions 
> could make two respins based on the Nov 8th release DVDs, we in North 
> America would be most appreciative.  (One DVD for 32bit, the other for 
> 64bit).
> 
> UBUNTU, being produced in Africa, is a distribution using the supposedly 
> illegal respins. UBUNTU asks if you wish to break the law of your 
> country by installing those codecs for you, and does so, assuming you 
> reply yes to the question.
>       
> Precedence has been set.  Go for it Fedora.

What works for a distribution outside of U.S isn't the same as what 
works for Fedora. If you want to do such respins, you are free to do so 
but those respins would have to be rebranded.

This seems a offtopic discussion for this list anyway. Refer 
fedora-devel list for similar discussions.

Rahul