On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:23 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:37 -0600, John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:03, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > in some jurisdictions there is a legal precedent for linking to
> > "illegal" content to be just as bad as distributing it. Now I'm
not
> > saying that the flash plugin is illegal (it's not afaik) but the
> > parallel is enough to scare many lawyers ;)
>
> I really doubt there could be legal implications to pointing to an ftp
> site. Even if they prefer people go to the webpage there has been
> enough cases now about linking to pretty much settle that issue.
>
> But has anyone at RH tried asking for permission? Including preset repo
> lines for livna is right out, both legally and morally for the mission
> of Fedora. But what about the idea of a legal but non-free catagory for
> Flash, Acrobat, Nvidia, ATI, etc?
what makes you think NVidia and ATI are legal?
Since the vendor(s) makes them available for free download I would guess
there is no question of legality here.