#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy -------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: workstation | -------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by jwboyer): A few comments: The inclusion of "legal restrictions" in the Tier 2 definition is odd, particularly when using COPRs as an example. I think it would be better phrased as: "Tier Two: software hosted and packaged elsewhere, but discoverable and installable through Fedora software tooling. This software might be hosted elsewhere due to simple preference of upstream maintainer, legal restrictions, or inability to comply with Fedora packaging guidelines." Alternatively, remove "legal restrictions" from the Tier 2 definition and then define a Tier Three: "Tier Three: software hosted and packaged elsewhere, but discoverable and installable through Fedora software tooling. This software is hosted elsewhere due to upstream preference or legal restrictions. An example of software in the third tier is the Adobe Flash plugin repository. This software must be freely redistributable." or something along those lines. Reasoning is that COPRs must follow the same legal inclusion rules that any other Fedora package does, so leaving "legal restrictions" in Tier 2 seems ill placed. "Registries and similar tools:" How feasible is it to enforce the requirements here on third party registries? I don't see us having much influence on how rubygems, NPM, or Steam work installing their content both in terms of location of installation and ability for our tooling to work with it. "Principles/Submitting the application for consideration:" Is the audience for this section intended to be the third party application provider, or an interested user/community member looking to get a third party application included? I'm concerned about ability to influence upstreams here as well. I would think inclusion would be more of a Fedora looking outward process rather than a third party looking into Fedora. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/57#comment:1> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
