What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ... packages due to licensing issues"

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Randall J. Parr wrote:

> I'm frustrated. It seems every time we start to get close to solid, 
> useable, way to build/expand/maintain a full-featured Red Hat 
> workstation/desktop it is snatched away.

I understand the Fedora people have their build system
software published, so anybody can easily create a 3rd
party repository of packages ...

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