Linking to "third party repositories"

[Richi Plana]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:24 +0100, 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 :-(

Well, here's a what-if situation: What if Fedora made a reference to RPM
Fusion's "free" repositories? According to Tom, "if someone asserted
their patents against something in Livna, we would need to take the page
down." If the repository that Fedora was referring to was the free one,
it would separate itself from the non-free one and would lessen the
likelihood that someone would assert their patents against it. So even
if someone does that to the non-free repo, perhaps Fedora wouldn't have
to take down its page since it's not referring to that one? (I'm
assuming that it's the repository and not the organization legal is
concerned with)
--

Richi Plana