Fedora Project, give me 20 Million Euros or Free EDA software

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Sat Jan 31 10:11:00 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Fedora is not a content distribution. It's a software distribution. We only
> ship content which is directly related to software we ship:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Code_Vs_Content
> 
> Fedora is not a content library, we cannot ship all the content in
> existence, there's just too much of it.
> 
> OVM cannot be used with any software in Fedora, so it also does not belong
> into Fedora. What's the point of shipping content which cannot be used?
> 
> The same rationale is also being applied to MP3 files, which are also not
> permitted in Fedora.

but not for the same reason, so the comparison is inadequate.

How about: we don't ship packages of CC-licensed free music in OGG 
format (even though that content CAN be used in Fedora) because Fedora 
is not a music library ?

-denis




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