On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 19:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:38 +0100, 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). > > 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. If it is, then in theory RH would need to > perform a transitive closure on all the web sites it hosts to ensure > there's no path from them to the good stuff (sorry, the bad stuff). > > Of course I think like a mathematician, not like a lawyer. Actually, based on the preposition here by Redhat then even hosting this list would cause illegalities to be linked to them as every time the question comes up someone posts links and answers... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
