Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

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Alan Cox wrote:
>> Fedora cannot (as a US organisation) point an end user at a repository
>> for free but US patent violating material. Merely providing a link is
>> an offence and there is caselaw to prove that (the infamous 2600 DVD
>> case).

Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Is this transitive? i.e. if RH points at an offshore site which contains
> nothing but pointers to the sensitive material, is it still a violation?
> If it's not, problem solved.

Surely, even if that sort of thing was possible.  As soon as they were
informed (one way or another) that link in the middle was pointing to
something that they're not allowed to do themselves, they'd have to
cease referring to the referrer.

> Of course I think like a mathematician, not like a lawyer.

Methinks you forgot regression.

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