On 07/14/2010 01:11 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > The intent of fedoracommunity.org was never to create a home for Fedora > Contributors to store material that would not be acceptable for the > Fedora Project and its hosted servers. > I understand that is not the specific intent but if you are going to allow such content, then it would be helpful to collect and organize such content in a useful way. Let's suppose that I apply for in.fedoracommunity.org and use a wiki for such purposes, I would not be stopped by the current policies. > So, here's a short list (by no means complete) as to why I am opposed to > this: > > 1) It will fragment the existing wiki. > Fragementation would be similar to the fragmentation of the community in Fedora vs RPMFusion. Anything that can be in the Fedora wiki would be recorded there. > 2) It will almost certainly lead to aggressive cross-linking between the > wikis, which will give the impression that it is official and ultimately > lead to Red Hat shutting it down, along with the rest of > fedoracommunity.org. > fedoraproject.org wiki can have policies to ensure that aggressive cross linking is not permitted. > 3) Hooking it into FAS makes it functionally official, and means that > there is a direct link between Fedora Contributors who have likely > agreed to the ICLA/FPCA and contributions which are legally unacceptable > in some way. > Is there anything in ICLA/FPCA disallowing this? > fedoracommunity.org is a gray area, in that the Fedora Trademark is in > use, and Red Hat owns the DNS record. What you propose is not the > intended use of fedoracommunity.org (to provide locale/region/language > specific offsite groups domain continuity) and crosses the line > established to minimize the legal risks present. > Fair enough. I didn't know that it was a gray area. Rahul _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
