On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 06:48 -0700, Jeremy Hargis wrote: > Hello. I am interested in using Fedora in both work and home office > environments. Is Fedora structured in such a way as to abide by US > software patent laws, making it safe for work in the US? I've mainly > used a couple other Linux distributions. In both cases, I found it > very difficult to determine whether or not the distro included > software (such as multimedia codecs) which were illegal to use in the > United States. Since I am interested in using Linux at work, I would > like some kind of assurance that at the very least a fresh install is > free of patent-infringing software. In the past, I've worked with > other distros that made the task of reaching out and grabbing whatever > codec was needed (regardless of it's legality) almost automatic, which > is nearly the opposite situation I'm looking for. I figured since > Fedora is backed by Red Hat, a US company, perhaps the project's > approach would be a bit more acceptable for the complicated patent law > situation in this country. > > I saw this page, which was > informative: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents. Yet, the > disclaimer made it clear this was not necessarily Fedora's official > stance on these matters, so I was compelled to write an email. Thanks > for any help and/or clarification. > > Jeremy (jhargis1012@xxxxxxxxx) > Hello, This might be what you're looking for: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Main -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
