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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul W. Frields <<A HREF="mailto:stickster@gmail.com">stickster@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:22 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Is it legal to write a gudeline for using 3rd party repositories and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> how to configure them?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Not if you want to put it on the Fedora wiki. If you want to put it on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> a private web space you own, have at it, but do not link to it from the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> wiki either. You can rely on Google to guide people to your page if it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> is helpful -- people will find it and naturally elevate or lower it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> appropriately in the rankings.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> --</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Paul W. Frields <A HREF="http://paul.frields.org/">http://paul.frields.org/</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://redhat.com/">http://redhat.com/</A> - - - - <A HREF="http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/">http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Why? Because of the laws in US? Isn't this similar to issue with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">posting source code of DeCSS? Isn't that covered by the 1st amendment</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and the freedom of speech?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Valent</FONT>
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Valent, because the Fedora Project is hosted, both in terms of software as well as an organization in the US, US laws are in effect and must be followed.
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