From esr at thyrsus.com Sun Feb 1 17:12:38 2004 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6477360091063538885==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Package redirects as a solution Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 17:11:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20040201221138.GA12452@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 1075668682.12687.4509.camel@gruyere --===============6477360091063538885== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dams : > DMCA doesnt apply here. Neither software patents does (so far). So we > just get rid of those two "details". rpm.livna.org is not, i repeat, is > NOT a warez site : we wont provide any mame rom, win32 non distributable > dll, or Britney Spears mp3^WOgg Vorbis as rpm as long as they are > _copyrighted_. = Fine, I think nobody wants you to commit acts that would be substantively piracy. I though the tar archives of dlls were redistributable but = apparently I'm wrong. I agree with the earlier suggestion that package-level redirects would be a good solution for some of this sort of thing. So, for example, the Fedora yum repository could carry a redirect that would send queries for flash-plugin to the macromedia site. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============6477360091063538885== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="attachment.sig" LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0KVmVyc2lvbjogR251UEcgdjEuMi4yIChHTlUv TGludXgpCgppRDhEQlFGQUhYbVpyZlVXMDRRaDhSd1JBbmFOQUtDVnM1U2p2MmJNZzJpNGVQQ2lh ZzJMRXFtcGZnQ2ZSa1NhClUxOW1XejVJeWNxQndLN05lemV4TEI4PQo9MUhJbQotLS0tLUVORCBQ R1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0K --===============6477360091063538885==--