On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:06:14PM -0600, David Eisenstein wrote: > Perhaps this needs more discussion, however. As participating members of > the Fedora Project team, are there things we should not say on the mailing > list(s)? I keep reading things about the wiki, for example, that say we > mustn't talk (at least on Fedora's official web-pages) about things that > aren't "pure" open-source or that violate some standard of open- > sourciness; nor should we use the wiki resource to point to outside > resources that may have (Linux) software that is proprietary or use > features that in some of many jurisdictions might violate patents or other > intellectual property laws. It depends. If you post/write something like "use <the possibly patent-flawed software XYZ>" or "use <closed source, propriatary software ABC>" you and maybe any official position you are dressing are encouraging the possible patent violation or use of propriatary software. But if you make a statement that this software has security flaws you are not endorsing directly or indirectly any usage of this software. As to how far this is on or off-topic for this list and that webspace: If it really adds value to the target audience then it's always on-topic. And people subscribing to a fedora-security list shouldn't mind the one or other post about security flaws on not directly fedora content. We're not Debian, are we? ;) Of course everything has a line somehwere. Posting about Microsoft Office vulnerabilities because you could run Office under wine on fedora would not only be off-topic, but perhaps an insult to the community ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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