legal April 2012

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] CAcert.org license
by Tom Callaway 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:03 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > > >>>>> "TC" == Tom \"spot\" Callaway <Tom> writes: > > > > TC> Given that it does not give permission for us to redistribute (the > > TC> cornerstone requirement for Content licenses), this license is not > > TC> acceptable for Fedora. > > > > I guess I'm glad I looked before approving the package, but I have to > > wonder: Do the cacert folks actually want anyone to use their > > certificates? I mean, this prevents basically everyone from using > > them, because they can't come with the OS or the browser. > > Personally, the more I read the document, the more I'm confused. > > "You may NOT distribute certificates or root keys under this > licence"... does this mean we can distribute under a different license? Well, sortof. The wording here is strange because you can get a different license from the CA issuer. We can't just pick a license, but the CA issuer might be willing to give us a different one. > Would it be worth getting in contact with CAcert.org in order to try > and have them allow us to redistribute the root certs under conditions > which are acceptable to the Fedora Project? Probably, yes. :) ~spot

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MP3
by Orcan Ogetbil 02 May '12

02 May '12

What is the current situation with MP3 allowance in Fedora? I thought 2012 was the year when we could -at least- have not-patent-encumbered, free MP3 _decoding_. Can you please update us on the latest status? Thanks, Orcan

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] hi Legal
by Sergio Belkin 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

hi Legal make sure you take a look at this before you do anything else dont pussy out you can do it i know you can http://t.co/Cgj2ajdN

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Packaging oVirt generated source
by juan.hernandez＠redhat.com 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hello, We would like to package for fedora the Data Ware House component of oVirt, which contains parts generated using Talend Open Studio (see [1]). This tool allows the user to define graphically some data flows and transformations and then generates Java code. The generated Java code states in the header that the license is LGPL and the tool itself claims to be open source using GPL v2 (see [2]). Is it acceptable from the legal point of view to create a Fedora package using the generated Java code as the source? Thanks in advance, Juan Hernandez [1] http://www.talend.com [2] http://www.talend.com/download.php

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Making Infrastructure httpd logs public
by Ian Weller 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

As part of the statistics++ project [1] it is Infrastructure's plan to make data about visits to Fedora Project web servers public, in order to automate the information made available on the Statistics wiki page. The httpd logs currently contain personally-identifiable information: the IP address the request originated from and the user agent header. We think that at an absolute minimum we need to hash the IP address (with a seed, obviously) and leave the user agent header as is. But we wanted to make sure we got legal's opinion on this. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ianweller/statistics_plus_plus -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>

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Fedora Inro/Outro Video Contest
by Nitesh Narayan 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi, Fedora-Video team ([1]) wanted to organize a contest for Inro /Outro Contest whose details can be found at ([2]) . The point at which we are currently stuck is what we can give to the winners we have things such as Fedora T-shirts in our mind as different countries has different rules . That's why we are still not very sure , so any suggestions and help is most welcomed here . [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Video [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Videos/FedoraVideos_Contest_Intro/Outro The contest page is yet not complete and modifications are still need to be done on the same . Regards Nitesh Narayan Lal https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Niteshnarayan

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Concern about the Clementine music player application
by Ryan Farmer 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hello, I have some concerns about the Clementine music player application as packaged in Fedora. The concerns involve the Spotify integration feature. The application uses Spotify's trademarks and their copyrighted logo and suggests that the user pull in a proprietary application called "Spotify Core" to use the feature. This effectively makes the feature a stub that pulls in proprietary software. I'm wondering if any of this is in violation of any Fedora packaging guidelines for the issues I've raised. Thank you.

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