keeping all he proprietary stuff away from Fedora

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Feb 26 07:16:44 UTC 2007


On Feb 23, 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> - if that 3rd party repo would have be slitted in non-free stuff and
> potential harmful stuff, so users and contributors from the US and
> some other country's can safely work with the non-free repo without
> getting involved with the more problematic stuff

I for one would love to be able to enable third-party repositories
containing only Free Software, even if encumbered by patents (that are
worth nothing in Brazil, where I live), without the risk of pulling in
some non-Free Software by accident.

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Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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