[Fedora-legal-list] Potential problem with Bitttorrent DHT

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Wed Apr 1 14:04:35 UTC 2009


Note that, historically, suse has prohibited 'real' p2p in their
distro on very, very specious legal grounds. (Basically fear that it
is per se illegal even though this isn't true in the US, much less
elsewhere.) I assume (but have no specific information) that this is
just a variant of that.

Luis

2009/3/30 David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com>:
> As is pointed out by upstream for Monsoon, Novell have disallowed DHT
> implementation from the openSUSE repos based on a legal risk as assessed by
> openSUSE Legal. The precise nature of the problem is unclear from the
> initial mail but Alan McGovern says he will provide information to
> interested parties, as such I would like some input from Fedora Legal if the
> problem applies to Fedora as well.
>
> Relevant information
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492297
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00048.html
>
> Regards,
> David Nielsen
>
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