Help with Fedora's criteria for project imports?

[Margaret Lum]

Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Margaret Lum wrote:
>
>> I'm concerned about the prospect of submitting requests for approval 
>> to import our sanitized components, but being rejected for 
>> non-licensing issues. Technically, I believe we have our ducks in a 
>> row, but the "legal stuff" is where a nebulous cloud currently hangs.
>>
>> Rex offered to help us out, so I'm going to speak with him. I know 
>> that we need to have our licenses updated to (L)GPL, be package-able 
>> through Koji, have all the necessary mailing lists, groups, ACLs, 
>> remove branded-proprietary code (we came from Netscape/AOL and have 
>> government contracts), adopt the Fedora development process, and 
>> likely exclude signing from our releng process (until there's a 
>> RH-sponsored non-ncipher possibility in the near future). What I'm 
>> wondering is -- what else is there?
>
>
> Rex will definitely be able to help you along -- but really, I don't 
> think there is much else.  So long as the code is under an approved 
> license, the RPMs are packaged according to the guidelines, and your 
> team sticks around to maintain the packages, there really *shouldn't* 
> be much else.  Any legal issues remaining are likely to be inside the 
> RH fenceline, not in Fedora-land.
>
> --g
>
Is there someone, in particular, within Red Hat/within Fedora with whom 
we should speak about the potential legal issues? (I assume there might 
be an offline answer to this..)