Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Third party repository containing only Free but patent encumbered
software hosted outside of US in a region not affected by software
patents and in resources provided external to Red Hat.
That definition fails. And it fails completely. If it is a Third party
repository, you cannot control what other software is put in it.
If you _can_ control what else gets put into it, then it's not really a
Third party repo.
In practical terms, I don't need to control a repository to be aware
what goes into it according to their explicitly written guidelines by
Fedora contributors outside of Red Hat. It is possible that someone
might sneak in a package that violates the guidelines in a official or
third party repository. Either would be considered a bug and fixed. If
absolute control is necessary you cannot point to a third party
repository at all but that is up to Legal to decide.
If that level of control is desirable, it needn't be a third party
repository but a Fedora repository built and hosted in external (to Red
Hat) systems in regions that don't enforce software patents by Fedora
contributors.
Rahul
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