other repositiries howto and guideline?

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:22 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> Is it legal to write a gudeline for using 3rd party repositories and
> >> how to configure them?
> >
> > Not if you want to put it on the Fedora wiki.  If you want to put it on
> > a private web space you own, have at it, but do not link to it from the
> > wiki either.  You can rely on Google to guide people to your page if it
> > is helpful -- people will find it and naturally elevate or lower it
> > appropriately in the rankings.
> >
> > --
> > Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/
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> 
> 
> Why? Because of the laws in US? Isn't this similar to issue with
> posting source code of DeCSS? Isn't that covered by the 1st amendment
> and the freedom of speech?
> 
> Cheers,
> Valent
> .

Valent, because the Fedora Project is hosted, both in terms of software
as well as an organization in the US, US laws are in effect and must be
followed.
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