Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> Linking to "third party repositories": Legal says that we can link, from >> the Fedora website, to third party repositories, so long as no one has >> made a critical assessment to determine that a patent or patents cover >> the technology in question and no party has actually asserted their >> patents against the technology, we should be okay. Once we are on notice >> of a claim of infringement or are aware of a competent assessment that >> concludes infringement is likely, we would need to take the link down or >> run a serious risk of facing a claim for inducing infringement. Merely >> linking would be highly unlikely to subject us to a claim of direct >> infringement. I asked about MP3, and it was stated that unless we are >> specifically aware of the MP3 patent holders asserting a claim against >> the technology, we are still okay. > > So the real question now that Red Hat Legal is ok with it is whether we in > the Fedora Project should be doing it? > > I think we should link to RPM Fusion (the free part) in the future if and > when it's up and running from codeina ... in what way? The codeina codec list is included in the packaging. Bill _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
