Unofficial Fedora Remix being advertised on the project front page

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Oct 16 16:05:39 UTC 2013


On 10/16/2013 11:00 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 10/16/2013 03:50 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>> For bugs that still are applicable, I see no problem with that either.
>> It's a price well worth paying IMO.
>
> Oh I see so I assume you condone all the ubuntu bugs that have been
> filed in our bugzilla instances as well?

You assume too much, since, last I checked, ubuntu is far from a fedora 
remix.

>> The extreme alternative is to basically say no to remixes of any form,
>> which would make me a sad panda.
>
> There is nothing but good to have plethora of remixes however we cannot
> be wasting project resources dealing with their problems

Legitimate bugs are a waste of resources?

> But any how is it different that we advertise and point to for example
> rpmfusion.org but we can point to unofficial remix?

I guess you'll have to ask a lawyer what constitutes Contributory 
infringement.  I'm not a laywer, but to me it is very different.

-- Rex



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