On 4/23/14, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There are some aspects on this: >> - I don't think Fedora is able add non-free, patent-encumbered sw in >> e. g., in the way Ubuntu does - it fails on the fact that US law is >> applicable [...] > > This has been repeated multiple times recently but that is still > wrong. For patent-encumbered sure we cannot ship them without a patent > license but > there is no legal reason why we couldn't ship non free software > (assuming the license allows redistribution) ... not saying that we > should but claiming > "we can't for legal reasons" is just plain wrong.
Agreed (sloppy argumentation from my side). That said, being able to distribute non-free sw but not patent-encumbered is just a half-baked solution which isn't that interesting. You'd need something like rpmfusion anyway. --alec -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
