a legal way to include 3rd party repositories in fedora?

[dragoran]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 12:37 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:41:09PM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>     
>>> Also I understand that directly linking from Fedora or an official
>>> Fedora website to http://rpm.livna.org is considered "contributory
>>> infingement"
>>>       
>> *Could* be contributory infringement. An important distinction -- I don't
>> think we admit any such thing, but are rather erroring on the side of
>> caution.
>>     
>
> Even if it wasn't contributory infringement, Fedora isn't about building
> a great OS using whatever software happens to work, Fedora is about
> building a great OS with free and open source software.  Making it
> easier to install non-FOSS sofware is contrary to that goal.
>
>   
its not about non-FOSS software but about FOSS software that can't be 
shipped due to patents.