On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> The ripping things out of tarballs policy seems really weird to me. >> It means, for example, that I can't compare the hash of the openssl >> tarball to upstream's. >> >> Is it really necessary? I understand that Fedora can't ship anything >> infringes on a patent, but I had the distinct impression that patents >> didn't cover uncompiled source code. > > Your impression is incorrect, afaik, ianal, yada yada.
[citation needed] > Everything fedora > ships needs to be freely re-distributable, including the source code. Well he said " Of course, if there is actually stuff in the tarball that isn't redistributable, that's a different story." .. We have been shipping patented code in freetype for a while (until it expired) we just disabled it at build time. So I simply do not know whether the "remove patented code from he tarball" is simply paranoia or there is really a legal reason for it. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
