Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 15:54:13 UTC 2007


On 04/07/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
> > I would love to see three-click install of freshrpms (first two screens
> > saying that fedora and red hat are clear of all legal ties with livna
> > and that users to this at their own, blah, blah, blah) - but fedora
> > devels say that their lawyers advise against it!
>
> It seems to me that it is up to freshrpms to explain clearly
> on their web-site how to install their repository.
> I wouldn't have thought that would be very difficult.
>

Fortunately they do[1]. The last time this came up the barrier
was that RedHat legally cannot help people to work around
patent restrictions.

[1] "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click
here from within firefox, choose to open with Software Installer (the
default) then go to Add/Remove Software from the main menu, where new
applications will be available in the list."

-- 
imalone




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