advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 02/12/2014 03:36 PM, Kai Engert wrote:
> Are we allowed to ship software in Fedora that dynamically loads
> advertisements from the web and shows them to users?

I see no reason why to forbid it (from my POV).

It is always decision of upstream. And either that program is good enough that users will use it with ads. Or users will 
use something else.

We have freedom to do what we want. But we should respect upstream as well.

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Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys