#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy
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Reporter: pfrields | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: workstation |
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Comment (by jwboyer):
A few comments:
The inclusion of "legal restrictions" in the Tier 2 definition is odd,
particularly when using COPRs as an example. I think it would be better
phrased as:
"Tier Two: software hosted and packaged elsewhere, but discoverable and
installable through Fedora software tooling. This software might be hosted
elsewhere due to simple preference of upstream maintainer, legal
restrictions, or inability to comply with Fedora packaging guidelines."
Alternatively, remove "legal restrictions" from the Tier 2 definition and
then define a Tier Three:
"Tier Three: software hosted and packaged elsewhere, but discoverable and
installable through Fedora software tooling. This software is hosted
elsewhere due to upstream preference or legal restrictions. An example of
software in the third tier is the Adobe Flash plugin repository. This
software must be freely redistributable."
or something along those lines. Reasoning is that COPRs must follow the
same legal inclusion rules that any other Fedora package does, so leaving
"legal restrictions" in Tier 2 seems ill placed.
"Registries and similar tools:"
How feasible is it to enforce the requirements here on third party
registries? I don't see us having much influence on how rubygems, NPM, or
Steam work installing their content both in terms of location of
installation and ability for our tooling to work with it.
"Principles/Submitting the application for consideration:"
Is the audience for this section intended to be the third party
application provider, or an interested user/community member looking to
get a third party application included? I'm concerned about ability to
influence upstreams here as well. I would think inclusion would be more
of a Fedora looking outward process rather than a third party looking into
Fedora.
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