Fedora board vote and way forward

[Christian Schaller]

Yeah, for the installer it will be a bit hard to proceed atm,
but there are of course a lot of other aspects to the PRD we 
can flesh out.

I will check with legal if there are any implications in turning the
software app into a application that searches the web for Fedora sofware
as opposed to a front-end to specific repositories. It could be a 
work around as it lets the purist stay pure as we don't ship any data
pointing to anything non-free and at the same time it would make any software
available for Fedora easier to find. Hopefully it would be fine as the software
app at that point is essentially just a web browser tailored to search for software.

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:32:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora board vote and way forward
> 
> On 24 January 2014 10:18, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> > ...writing up a technical specification of the product...
> 
> I think this is going to be hard until we know more about the legal
> side of things and what we're allowed to do. From my point of view, if
> we can ship a google-chrome.repo file that's disabled and some
> pre-prepared appstream metadata, it makes building the required
> functionality in gnome-software quite easy. We can show the non-free
> applications, and if the user clicks install we just need to show some
> kind of agreement, download the metadata and then install the
> application.
> 
> If we can't ship the AppStream metadata or the disabled repo file then
> we need some way of querying for search terms, for instance calling
> out to a webservice on apps.fedoraproject.org that returns results for
> a search term of "chrome" -- this will also need to return icons,
> perhaps screenshots, and also some repo parameters and possible EULA
> text. This would be possible to implement in a gnome-software plugin
> and a chunk of new functionality in PackageKit, and would also need a
> new webservice. So again, possible, just a little harder to implement.
> 
> Richard.
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