On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Fedora cannot (as a US organisation) point an end user at a
repository
for free but US patent violating material. Merely providing a link is
an
offence and there is caselaw to prove that (the infamous 2600 DVD
case).
Is this transitive? i.e. if RH points at an offshore site which contains
nothing but pointers to the sensitive material, is it still a violation?
If it's not, problem solved. If it is, then in theory RH would need to
perform a transitive closure on all the web sites it hosts to ensure
there's no path from them to the good stuff (sorry, the bad stuff).
Of course I think like a mathematician, not like a lawyer.
poc