Hi All, At the FESCo meeting today, the following things were decided on 3rd party repositories. Some of this is specific to COPRs because those are an odd case of 3rd party repositories. 1) COPRs can provide RPMS with .repo files in them because Red Hat is the provider and assumes liability, but those cannot be included in the main Fedora repos per FESCo decree. 2) COPR repos may be searched for applications to install as long as the user is explicitly asked to enable the copr before installing packages from them. 3) General 3rd party repositories cannot be searched or enabled due to liability concerns. (NOTE: "searched" in 2 and 3 was intended to cover searching by software. Clearly users can manually search for anything.) 4) FESCo is okay with pointing to specific free software repositories in the same way as COPR repos if they are approved by FESCo and Fedora Legal. They are not limited in the criteria that they can choose to apply. 5) For non-free sofware repositories, FESCo is not changing exisiting policy. Non-free software repositories are not allowed. Permission to make these discoverable via searching software would require a change in policy from the Fedora Board. In short, this means products can request approval of specific 3rd party free software repositories. If approved, they can include their contents along with COPR repos in application searches a user does and offer to install them with a warning that they come from a 3rd party, non-Fedora repo. Repositories containing non-free software cannot be enabled by default or made discoverable through software. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
