On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:06:14PM -0600, David Eisenstein wrote:
Perhaps this needs more discussion, however. As participating
members of
the Fedora Project team, are there things we should not say on the mailing
list(s)? I keep reading things about the wiki, for example, that say we
mustn't talk (at least on Fedora's official web-pages) about things that
aren't "pure" open-source or that violate some standard of open-
sourciness; nor should we use the wiki resource to point to outside
resources that may have (Linux) software that is proprietary or use
features that in some of many jurisdictions might violate patents or other
intellectual property laws.
It depends. If you post/write something like "use <the possibly
patent-flawed software XYZ>" or "use <closed source, propriatary
software ABC>" you and maybe any official position you are dressing
are encouraging the possible patent violation or use of propriatary
software. But if you make a statement that this software has security
flaws you are not endorsing directly or indirectly any usage of this
software.
As to how far this is on or off-topic for this list and that webspace:
If it really adds value to the target audience then it's always
on-topic. And people subscribing to a fedora-security list shouldn't
mind the one or other post about security flaws on not directly fedora
content. We're not Debian, are we? ;)
Of course everything has a line somehwere. Posting about Microsoft
Office vulnerabilities because you could run Office under wine on
fedora would not only be off-topic, but perhaps an insult to the
community ;)
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