On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 19:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > 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. > > I had the impression that it was about linking to the repository package > directly instead of just the website? If even linking to the website > itself from a dialog box in codeina is not ok with Red Hat Legal, we > could either update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy or in the > second dialog where it lists the Fluendo codecs, we could introduce a > new link that says "click here for free alternatives" or something > similar. Is that ok? The semantics of the how are not really my call, as long as you follow these two rules: 1. The only place we can link to 3rd party repositories is from fedoraproject.org, under the terms that I originally described. 2. We cannot directly link to 3rd party repositories from any Fedora package. ~spot _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
