Re: Announcing rpmfusion

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

Seriously though, this is just plain dumb wrong:

If we cannot include the packages in our own repositories but we can point to other repositories that do have the packages, nothing prevents us from distributing the appropriate /etc/yum.repos.d/ files in the fedora-release package.

This is again different from including the packages. The details are important from a legal perspective.

So, I'll back up Jesse's question:

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And really, if we could reference it, then why the crap couldn't we just package it in our repo?

Same answer. Go and read the Fedora Advisory Board list threads which already answer this question.

Rahul