Dams <anvil(a)livna.org>:
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.
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