We might be in hot water still, but at least liability could possibly not be claimed if it is in the Terms of Use of this community list of repositories...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Casey Dahlin</b> <<a href="mailto:cjdahlin@ncsu.edu">cjdahlin@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
King InuYasha wrote:<br>> Unfortunately, because Red Hat IS a USA-based company, they (and all<br>> us Americans) cannot make a distro available that is directly<br>> connected in ANY fashion to repositories containing patented
<br>> technologies that do not have an license explicitly stating that there<br>> will be no repercussions for such aforementioned inclusion scenarios<br>> to be applied. This is why Fedora has such a bad rep (I am not saying
<br>> it is a bad distro, I use it for everything!) with uninformed people<br>> (people making the choice of using Linux for the first time). Though I<br>> think CodecBuddy NEEDS support for reading through repositories to
<br>> find codecs because there ARE Free codecs not in the Fedora DVD by<br>> default and should be able to be detected and installed.<br>><br>Maybe web2.0 is the solution :) . What if we have a way to query a list
<br>of repos that is stored on a central site that can be appended to by<br>anyone? Then we might be able to disclaim responsibility for pointing it<br>out.<br>> On 9/12/07, *Tom spot Callaway* <<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">
tcallawa@redhat.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">tcallawa@redhat.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:<br>><br>> > Or - why not move the entire repo to places that can have all the
<br>> > contents? What's the point of even worrying about this issue?<br>><br>> It's not where the repo sits, its where Red Hat is based out of.<br>><br>> ~spot<br>><br>> --
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