On Mar 15 février 2005 4:41, Rodd Clarkson a écrit : > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:31 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: >>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. > > Okay, but this is the bit I struggle with in regard to the idea of a > community process for Fedora Core. [...] > Or why should FC care whether third parties (in some countries) who can > download the ISO's and then charge per CD-ROM might be affected by the > software included. 1. FC is not the ultimate source of all its components - why should upstream projects care about FC if it doesn't care about its downstream ? 2. I think you severily underestimate the contributions of downstream projects - if you play nice with downstream downstream will play nice with you and contribute developpers/packages to FC. A lot of the people contributing things for FC extras now come from what can be considered downstream projects : livna, dag, aurora... Getting the relations right with upstream and downstream is one of the main points of Fedora - this is what RH was about to lose when RHEL was launched. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
