On 9/12/07,
Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
King InuYasha wrote:
> Unfortunately, because Red Hat IS a USA-based company, they (and all
> us Americans) cannot make a distro available that is directly
> connected in ANY fashion to repositories containing patented
> technologies that do not have an license explicitly stating that there
> will be no repercussions for such aforementioned inclusion scenarios
> to be applied. This is why Fedora has such a bad rep (I am not saying
> it is a bad distro, I use it for everything!) with uninformed people
> (people making the choice of using Linux for the first time). Though I
> think CodecBuddy NEEDS support for reading through repositories to
> find codecs because there ARE Free codecs not in the Fedora DVD by
> default and should be able to be detected and installed.
>
Maybe web2.0 is the solution :) . What if we have a way to query a list
of repos that is stored on a central site that can be appended to by
anyone? Then we might be able to disclaim responsibility for pointing it
out.
> On 9/12/07, *Tom spot Callaway* < tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:38 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > Or - why not move the entire repo to places that can have all the
> > contents? What's the point of even worrying about this issue?
>
> It's not where the repo sits, its where Red Hat is based out of.
>
> ~spot
>
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