> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of seth vidal > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:40 PM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > Subject: Re: rawhide report: 20041106 changes > > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 13:31, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote: > > Too many lawyers leads to high score losses. > > > > First RH people got rid of almost all interesting multimedia > > libraries, so people had to find and download it from places that are > > not RH repositories... Now the same is happening to MySQL, other > > applications and even x11 true type fonts, while most other distros > > are not so restrictive about non GPL packages. Even when you are > > dealing with basic subjects - NTFS module is not compiled in the > > official distro, so we have do download kernel software (BTW > > 2.6.9-1.667 does not compile well with the /boot/config-2.6.9-1.667) > > and recompile the whole stuff - you have to fight with the fact that > > the lawyers at RH are GPL zealotes and this is anoying... > > Okay, Look, this is not a development discussion. If you'd like to start > a screed about red hat's lawyers take it to fedora-list. But not on > fedora-devel-list, okay? good. > > -sv > > it is a development issue, and a open source issue. I don't really know how RH's lawyers are an issue. But what goes in/out to fc distro is an for the devl list and the impact of patents on that so I'm sure where you are coming from Seth.
