On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. The FESCo ticket documenting all of this is here: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1201 josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
