[Fedora-packaging] Digging up an old dead thread ...

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Jun 24 19:15:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 20:22:40 +0200,
  steve <steve at lonetwin.net> wrote:

> b. About other CC licensed content -- A lot of the available content is 
> licensed with the Non-Commercial restriction, which is considered as a 
> Bad License according to the wiki page on licensing. Why is 
> non-commercial only restriction considered bad ? ...and is there an 
> alternative to including this in the official Fedora repository -- for 
> instance the rpm fusion repository ?

The problem is that it isn't free. The nonfree rpmfusion repo includes
at least some packages with no commercial use restrictions.




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