On 10/16/2013 03:48 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:35:57PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
I noticed that unofficial Fedora remix called Pidora was being
advertised on the projects homepage.
What do you mean by "unofficial"? There's no set of official remixes.
Some people refered to [1] as being remixes since they deviate from the
default one.
Who are the individuals that had this bright idea and decided to
open up that pandora box which probably violates various US laws
since general remixes add things like various codes of questionable
license nature as well as graphics drivers etc, stuff which to this
point was something we can't legally point.
If you have concrete legal concerns then you should absolutely forward
those to the board, but I haven't seen any evidence that Pidora contains
material that would be illegal for us to ship (rather than simply
material that we would *choose* not to ship).
And should we not put effort in presenting our own community
official remixes before we start presenting unofficial ones and
aren't advertising unofficial remixes on our own mailinglists as
well frown upon?
I haven't seen the advertising that you're referring to - have you got a
pointer?
slot 4 on the projects homepage
Pidora fills a niche that nobody else in the Fedora community
appears to have expressed an interest in (ie, building something that'll
run on ARMv6), so there's a benefit to it existing and us indicating
that it's available to people. Given that it's effectively targetting a
single device, I don't see any real benefit to including it as part of
the general Fedora project, especially since it'd almost inevitably be
restricted to being a secondary architecture.
But really, what's the problem here? People have chosen to build
something interesting on top of Fedora and we've chosen to let people
know it exists.
I use and love the pidora as much as the next guy the issue here is the
act of opening the pandora box of starting to advertise unofficial
remixes on our frontpage.
At least if we are going to start advertising 3rd party stuff we should
collect money on it to invest into the community in area which Red Hat
cant or is not willing to fund.
JBG
1. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
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