On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:34 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar > <abu_hurayrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:22 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > >>> Is it legal to write a gudeline for using 3rd party repositories and > >>> how to configure them? > >> > >> Not if you want to put it on the Fedora wiki. If you want to put it on > >> a private web space you own, have at it, but do not link to it from the > >> wiki either. You can rely on Google to guide people to your page if it > >> is helpful -- people will find it and naturally elevate or lower it > >> appropriately in the rankings. > >> > >> -- > >> Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > >> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > >> http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > >> irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug > > > > > > Why? Because of the laws in US? Isn't this similar to issue with > > posting source code of DeCSS? Isn't that covered by the 1st amendment > > and the freedom of speech? > > > > Cheers, > > Valent > > . > > > > Valent, because the Fedora Project is hosted, both in terms of software as > > well as an organization in the US, US laws are in effect and must be > > followed. > > I understand that, and I understand that I can't expect fedora to have > mp3 decoder on their hosted servers but I thought you have freedom of > speech, no? Weren't there some court cases that said that you can > write anything? Is it illegal to put this on the fedora wiki: > > > "rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm"; > > or it I leave that line out is this illegal: > > "yum install -y gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad" > > Why? This is not about freedom of speech, it's about the DMCA, patent encumbered code, and a whole host of other issues, none of which we need to go into *yet again* on this particular list. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems Please read that page. Read every page to which it links. If you still have questions, please take them to fedora-legal-list. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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