On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:33 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Omitting sources is just one of many ways people came up with to > deprive users of freedom. > > Another possibility is that of restrictive patent licenses, and the > recent creative patent agreements we recently learned about, such as > that between Microsoft and Novell. Restrictive patent licenses such as what? I know of no such license that is usable for a package in Fedora. And Fedora cannot do anything about the Microsoft/Novell deal. They are exercising a loophole in the GPL. How is Fedora supposed to fight that? > Yet another possibility would be trademark agreements that effectively > limited Fedora users' freedoms. Such as the one with the Mozilla for Firefox/Thunderbird? That is an issue to take to the Board. > It would be far more comforting if Fedora committed itself to respect > its users' freedoms in the general terms established by the FSD and > the OSD, rather than to commit itself to not disrespect them in some > particular ways. We _do_ use the OSD/OSI definition. It's the very first license category on that page. The ones that follow are actually more restrictive. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
