Legal update

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 16 14:56:52 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:49 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure we cannot offer up a .xml file which configures livna
>> like you're describing.
> 
> FWIW, I can pose this question to RH Legal if we want. Specifically, I
> can ask:
> 
> "Are we permitted to offer a file on the Fedoraproject.org website (not
> in a package) which would allow Fedora users to enable a third party
> repository, and install content from it?"
> 
> This would cover the .xml files and yum configs, for example.

That's what SUSE does though they point to separate website which has a 
xml file that will install a package from another repository and that is 
being advertised as "one click" install.

Rahul




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