Linking to "third party repositories"

[Hans de Goede]

Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I've just stumbled across this:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/257559/
> 
> I would highlight this sentence: "We cannot ship yum configs which
> enable Livna".
> 
> Even if a reference to RPM Fusion can be made in the Fedora wiki, Fedora
> cannot ship a config to directly access RPM Fusion. Thus I think that
> there is no longer a need for two distinct repositories free/nonfree :-(
> 

Actually there still is, the split was never needed for legal reasons, 
some non-free software is perfectly legal to redistribute in the US, the 
split was and is necessary because Fedora does not want to promote and 
thus does not want to link to, non free software.

Regards,

Hans