On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:18 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 7/19/07, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > but that's just it. if someone puts that in a repository then it could > > be a serious poison pill. If it is enough to get red hat sued then even > > if it bears out that rh acted appropriately by getting the problem fixed > > I can relatively guarantee that will be the LAST time we ever get to try > > that. > > Or a related question.. do we have the ability to point into another > repository of code for specific things, that we are confident aren't > legally toxic....regardless of the totality of what is available > there. If external repositories are essentially searchable > collections of software, is it okay to instruct users how to search > those external collections for very specific things? that's the issue - we can tell them how to add repos, sure. but we can't say which repos to add and if there are repos that are full of free and legally-unencumbered software then the question becomes why aren't they in fedora? -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
