On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:00:41AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > > > > We can encourage Fedora Remixes to list themselves on a wiki page, but I > > do not think we need to require this. I do not think it is in the > > interest of anyone to make it any more difficult for someone to make a > > derivative work or remix of Fedora. > > I could see a web application that made it easy for remixers to > provide all sorts of information about what, where, how, why, who, > when, and so forth. Even more, I could see an active special interest > group in Fedora that attracted remixers by giving them reasons to be > involved. A sort-of meta-community of remixers, who themselves might > be the tip of many thousands of remix users. > > The concern is, anything that is automatic without opt-in is going to > need a HUGE amount of visibility to the Fedora community. People are > wary of being tracked and reported on, so they would have to know > early what was being tracked, why, how, how it was aggregated, > anonymized, and so forth. All of that decided, openly, before a > single line of code need be written. [...snip...] In fact, opt-out solutions may be expressly forbidden in some locations, or may require complex contortions of shrink-wrapped agreements that we're loathe to create in Fedora. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
