On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I am not talking about any repo files. Just a pointer in documentation or in any application. The details are explained in FAB list. That requires Legal to look into this. No amount of layman arguments can help us make a decision and legal perspectives doesn't always make logical sense which many tend to assume.
In other words, Fedora's lawyers have deemed it risky (or even downright illegal) to include in the distro .repo files that would allow users to download, say, US-illegal codecs even if the repository itself physically and logistically isn't connected to Fedora. But pointers in documents can.
There we go. That's what the legal experts are saying. Do I have it about right? --
Richi Plana