New extra packages and yum repository

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 22:27:06 UTC 2003


Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> > I'm a bit mixed feeling about this.  On one side, I'm kindof a 
> > bit curious as to wether the rss screensavers are 100% copyright 
> > clean, and comments on their website or in the source before 
> > triggered my legal warning alarm, although I have no idea what it 
> > was now as that was a year or more ago.
> 
> It would certainly be important to check permission. There are other tools
> shipped which use web data from third parties but checking they have
> permission statements allowing it is important.
> 
> (One obvious example for RSS is evolution)

The rss in rss-glx has nothing to do with the RSS protocol, AFAIK.

Bill





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