Unofficial Fedora Remix being advertised on the project front page

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Oct 16 15:41:18 UTC 2013


On 10/16/2013 10:35 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

> Who are the individuals that had this bright idea and decided to open up
> that pandora box which probably violates various US laws since general
> remixes add things like various codes of questionable license nature as
> well as graphics drivers etc, stuff which to this point was something we
> can't legally point.

As it is not called fedora or distributed by the fedora project, I'm not 
aware of any legal risk.

> And should we not put effort in presenting our own community official
> remixes

I agree official ones should get exposure too.

> before we start presenting unofficial ones and aren't
> advertising unofficial remixes on our own mailinglists as well frown upon?

Not that I'm aware of.  I personally like, condone, and encourage 
remixes of all forms.

-- Rex


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