On 4/23/14, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alec Leamas
<leamas.alec(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some aspects on this:
> - I don't think Fedora is able add non-free, patent-encumbered sw in
> e. g., in the way Ubuntu does - it fails on the fact that US law is
> applicable [...]
This has been repeated multiple times recently but that is still
wrong. For patent-encumbered sure we cannot ship them without a patent
license but
there is no legal reason why we couldn't ship non free software
(assuming the license allows redistribution) ... not saying that we
should but claiming
"we can't for legal reasons" is just plain wrong.
Agreed (sloppy argumentation from my side).
That said, being able to distribute non-free sw but not
patent-encumbered is just a half-baked solution which isn't that
interesting. You'd need something like rpmfusion anyway.
--alec