On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 23 April 2014 02:29, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Mairin, >> Not sure exactly where you are coming from in terms of wanting legal >> to weigh in, but in general I don't think legals opinion is very relevant >> and this point. The first step here should always be us as a project >> deciding what >> user experience we want to offer our users, then once that is done go to >> legal >> and try to work with them to figure out how it can be done. >> > > The reason was that Legal was the big reason the rules are in place in the > first place. They are not just in place because of software patents. They > are in place because of different national laws on copyright, what is > considered to be infringement or redistribution by even linking, trademark > use (also dependent on nation etc), competition rules, and a probably > another dozen other factors. All of this applies to any software regardless whether it is free or not (as I said in the other mail). Copyright law does not differentiate between free and non free software. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
