On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 13:38, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > I wonder why RH can't see that? > > > ... no > > > > I'm pretty sure they can. However, directing people > > to places where they > > can (essentially) violate IP rights may be roughly > > as actionable as > > violating them yourself. > > the violation of IP rights if any is not universal. we > dont have software patents in India. its perfectly > legal for me to use an mp3 player in fedora Absolutely. But Red Hat is a US-based company and thus has to abide by US restrictions. The Fedora Project servers are (I believe) located in the US and thus similarly bound, I would guess. This is probably a FAQ topic on a Linux legal list somewhere. I would doubt that the policy will change from how Red Hat handles docs for their RHEL product, or previous incarnations of Red Hat Linux. Will that satisfy all Fedora users? Probably not, but we have to live with it until people give up on patent-encumbered software or Red Hat relocates all its operations to a nation that doesn't have these legal entanglements. I'm not holding my breath for either. International users will be able to make use of a multitude of non-Red Hat hosted sites for HOWTOs and documentation. Once again, Google conquers all. :-) No one's putting a lid on all that information, I'm just saying that I doubt the FDP will address it. Doing so conflicts with the mission of the whole Project (q.v. Bugzilla #129721). -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
