On 07/30/2010 11:28 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Implication: your goal is to get more people on rpmfusion, and you want to > take any legal loopholes you can find to get there The wording here makes it seem twisted and I don't think it is. There are legal constrains in doing certain things and there are certain things that are allowed. Are things that are allowed loopholes? I suppose that is a matter of perspective. I could give you more detailed examples but I am sure you are aware of a few yourself. One quick example is that we are not allowed to directly link to a third party repository and describe what is there but we are allowed to link to a domain which in turn describes a third party repository. That is permitted and we do that. Is that a exploitation of a loophole or helping end users? I think it is helping end users within our constraints. Making it easier to access repositories other than default is a useful thing and we are taking steps forward with that. When we are making that capability available, it is important to think about how to make it easier and whether important third party repositories can be made accessible and if there is a level of indirection that makes it possible, we should. I view it as helping our users, not exploiting some hole. You would notice in this thread, I wasn't the first person to ask even. If I ask, I bother to document the details and refer it to the next person asking about it and since I engage with the user communities in the forums and mailing lists, I can tell you that such questions do come up quite often. If it is already answered and documented already, I could simply refer to it and move on. Otherwise we end up in the debates for a prolonged manner. It is a pragmatic question and I making sure we have thought about the possibilities. Yes, it might be tiring but it is done in good faith and while you might consider it childish, my goal is to help end users. I am persistent about it on occasions but I am not obsessed with RPM Fusion or anything like that. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
