On 12/23/05, Patrick Barnes <nman64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of Fedora's policies is to enable downstream rebuilds and > redistribution. 1) Fedora already has software where rebuilds are constrained by trademark law. I can not modify mozilla however i want and rebuild it and re-distribute it as "mozilla" because of mozilla's trademark policy. I have to get mozilla's permission to reuse the trademark and the branding. Fedora is already rebuilding 'impure' in the trademark sense. >Contracts are a no-go, and it is still no more legal > for us to redistribute the source code. Are you absolutely sure its not legal to redistribute MIT licensed source code without a contract for the patents? That's not my nonlawyer understanding. My understanding is, for GPL codebases, the GPL itself self-terminates your ability to redistribute the sourcecode when the patent constraints your ability to use the binary. This is the first opensource, non-GPL codebase for mp3 that I am aware of, so whatever understanding we have for how to GPL interacts with patents might not completely apply. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
