Hello Michael,
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 15:35, Michael Tiemann wrote:
Moreover, it was my opinion that there were many important
contributors
who would be uninterested in making Fedora their preferred platform for
development if we incorporated proprietary software into the core. I
argued that it was better to give people the option to package and
maintain proprietary software on top of a free core than to exclude
people who reject non-free software.
I assume you will also address the issue whether non free or "semi free"
software can be distributed from Fedora Extras and if so how. And how to
integrate other solutions. I think Jeff summed it up nicely in his last
post.
I am trying to finish a draft statement for discussion on Fedora
policies and processes. This draft is /not/ an official Red Hat
position (at least not yet).
Any chance that with the help of a few other Red Hat developers (and of
course agreement from management) such a draft can be turned into an
official proposal for discussion? Do you have concrete plans in this
direction?
I also second the notion of creating fedora-legal as a place to have
licensing, trademark, and other legal-related discussions.
For strictly legal issues this is probably a good idea. But the
discussion about which licenses to accept has practical implications so
we shouldn't segregate the issues too strictly.
Leonard.
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