On May 9, 2007, "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:33 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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 don't qualify for Fedora as is. Excellent. Where's that stated? >> Yet another possibility would be trademark agreements that effectively >> limited Fedora users' freedoms. > Trademark or patent agreements are a board issue, but I can't see the > board agreeing to those sorts of things. What sorts of things exactly? It depends on what you understand by "limiting users' freedoms." Requiring certain images to be removed, for example, doesn't. Howver, requiring them to be replaced to keep the software functional, and having lots and lots of them, would turn the replacement into an unsurmountable work, which would effectively limit the freedoms. What do you think the board would disagree with? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
