On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 01:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Jeff Pitman <jeff.pitman@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > (Optimally, FC should just take up the offer and include it in the > > distro. Wasn't Redhat offering indemnication against ghost-cases of > > patent claims during the SCO debacle? How about MP3? :D) > > IANAL, I don't speak for Red Hat, etc ... but a couple of points seem > worth making here: > > 1. SCO's claims are utterly without merit. (IMHO, yadda yadda, see > above.) The MP3 patents are real. > > 2. SCO's claims cover the basis of the Unix/Linux system, while the > ability to play MP3's is, um, inessential to getting other things done. > > The risk/reward ratio for Red Hat to consider indemnifying users against > the two issues is completely different. I don't think you'll see Red > Hat going out on a limb for MP3 players. I also think that the indemnification only applies to paying customers (eg RHEL) and not fedora... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
