On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:25:46PM -0800, Denis Leroy wrote: > So why couldn't the Fedora project ask Fraunhofer (a german company, > btw, so all this talk about 'Mandrake is a french company and not > affected by patent law' seems rather weak) for permission ? Fedora is a free software project. Note that the Fraunhofer comment was about free (as in beer) not free as in price. So again we'd screw all the people who build things on Fedora or make CD images. Alan