On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:40 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RC> It's the politics behind Fedora which prevent "legal and free for > RC> non-commercial use" packages to be adopted by Fedora and which > RC> forces packagers to resort to 3rd parties. > > Bull. The whole point is to produce a distro that is free enough that > someone could, for example, sell it. The package in question cannot > be sold. The conflict with the goals of the Fedora project is > explicit. Well, the majority of Linux users are universities and educational institutions. The current FE policy closes out packages like this one. I can't find anything helpful in this FE attitude. Even Debian isn't has non-free repos. > RC> May-be it would be more helpful for FE (FESCO) to re-consider > RC> their attitude on "non-free repos" in FE. > > FESCo wouldn't be the one to decide on a fundamental change in the > basic direction of the project. Nobody is talking about changing Fedora. I am talking about adding another, separate repo, people could add as part of FE (Non-free Fedora Extras) Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
