On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 13:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 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. > > In the initial dialog box perhaps? I don't know what would be the most > appropriate thing to do. You cannot link to livna/RPM Fusion from within a package, RH Legal was very clear on that. You can link to the Fedoraproject.org page that links to it, but not directly to it. ~spot _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
