On Mar 15 février 2005 4:41, Rodd Clarkson a écrit :
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:31 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:25:46PM -0800, Denis Leroy wrote:
So why couldn't the Fedora project ask Fraunhofer (a german company, btw, so all this talk about 'Mandrake is a french company and not affected by patent law' seems rather weak) for permission ?
Fedora is a free software project. Note that the Fraunhofer comment was about free (as in beer) not free as in price. So again we'd screw all the people who build things on Fedora or make CD images.
Okay, but this is the bit I struggle with in regard to the idea of a community process for Fedora Core.
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Or why should FC care whether third parties (in some countries) who can download the ISO's and then charge per CD-ROM might be affected by the software included.
1. FC is not the ultimate source of all its components - why should upstream projects care about FC if it doesn't care about its downstream ?
2. I think you severily underestimate the contributions of downstream projects - if you play nice with downstream downstream will play nice with you and contribute developpers/packages to FC. A lot of the people contributing things for FC extras now come from what can be considered downstream projects : livna, dag, aurora...
Getting the relations right with upstream and downstream is one of the main points of Fedora - this is what RH was about to lose when RHEL was launched.
Regards,