On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 17:11 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: [snip]
I agree with the earlier suggestion that package-level redirects would be a good solution for some of this sort of thing. So, for example, the Fedora yum repository could carry a redirect that would send queries for flash-plugin to the macromedia site.
Is it absolutely certain that that is permissible? IMHO this is analogous to displaying a copyrighted image on your website that is streamed off someone else's website. You would be claiming to host the file while actually leeching someone's bandwith.
- Michel