On 03/11/2014 11:41 AM, Richard Fontana wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> On 03/10/2014 04:33 PM, Miroslav Suchy wrote: >>> And I find that I do not know the answer. >>> What is the trick that Ubuntu can host on PPA, Lunchpad etc. restricted >>> content, but Fedora can not? >> >> As pointed out, Canonical is not a US based company, Red Hat is. We're >> forced to comply with the awful mess of software patents and other US >> specific legal restrictions. > > Actually this idea I've been hearing for many years now that Canonical inherently does not face software patent issues because it is not *based* in the US makes no sense. Whether Canonical actually avoids software patent issues or not is academic, at best. They think they do, they act as if they do. We _know_ that we cannot do these things. ~tom == ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º> OSAS @ Red Hat University Outreach || Fedora Special Projects || Fedora Legal _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
