* Debarshi Ray: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:19:02AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: >> On Monday, October 14, 2019 6:12:18 AM MST mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:49 AM, John M. Harris Jr >> > >> > <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > It's good that we can >> > > reference external repositories such as rpmfusion-free, in my opinion. >> > >> > We actually cannot do that. It is prohibited because it would entail >> > significant risk. >> >> And proprietary software, in your opinion, does not? > > Depends. The answer to that question lies in the differences between > how copyright and patent laws work. But it leads to the strange situation that we can recommend to install ffmpeg if it is bundled with some proprietary software, but cannot do so if it is part of a free software repository. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
