Re: Legal questions

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:31:35 +0000
Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello , 
>  Since a long time I have some questions about legal issues, in some
>  perspectives , so I decide start by this Mailing List ... 
You may want to try the legal list, but sure... 

>  In Faq What I can build in Copr? 
>  
>  Forbidden items , but not packages that are not compliment as packages
>  guidelines .
>  
>  The minitube review [1] was not accepted because
>  is not_useful_without_ external_bits [2] but I can build it in Copr
>  isn't it ?  
This ticket is related I think:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1517

IMHO, you could build minitube in copr as long as it doesn't have any
hard dependencies on rpmfusion or other 3rd party packages. 

>  The second question , should be more legal is about openssl , Fedora
>  and RedHat begging re-enable ECC/ECDHE/EC/ECDSA/elliptic curves [3]
>  algorithms in openssl, but they just enabled a few curves , looks to
>  me that is legal have all curves enabled , other distributions like
>  Debian does , so I think Fedora just enabled what really needs and
>  stay more safe , and I ? can I build openssl without restrictions ?
>  as I wrote, I don't see any legal impediment . 
No. IMHO this is not acceptable in copr. The reason Fedora doesn't
enable them all is patents. I have no idea (nor do I want to) know
which patents over what, but the ones we can enable have been carefully
checked by legal. The others are not acceptable. 

kevin