Josh Boyer (jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > FWIW, I think this seems pretty sane overall. > > > Then, we just need to > > > > 1) get other distros involved > > 2) work with them to define & set up the service > > 3) work with the vendors on how to package stuff for it properly > > The sticking point here will be who hosts the service. If Fedora is > hosting a service for vendors of non-free software to list their > products, I don't really see how it's different semantically than > including links to repositories they host themselves. Yes, it solves > the technical problem of packaging being bad for this, but it doesn't > solve the broader "promotion of non-free software" issue that is what > really people seem to be objecting to. > > (Frankly, even if Fedora doesn't host the service and we still point > to it, the semantics are the same in my mind.) The point I would say is this: If a user has already explicitly requested to be shown third-party repositories, with the caveats that we can't support it, it could eat their system, and so on - then at that point, attempting to restrict the types of third-party software shown to them for reasons other than legal reasons doesn't make sense. I'd agree with you and Matthew that maintaining this is likely thankless drudge-work - that's why it is (IMO) even more important to do this as a cross-distro community effort. Share the pain! Plus, if you get a group tied in to handle this while vendors are still doing yum/apt repos, you already then have a point of contact and working relationship for when you roll out (hopefully) cross-OS packaging such as LinuxApps or other proposals - it's a natual place to get convergence. Bill _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
