[Fwd: Re: Legality questions.... (<repositoryWhichShallNotBeNamed> & nVidia)]

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Sat Sep 20 20:54:33 CEST 2008


On 2008-09-20, 16:40 GMT, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Anyway: Do you think that's split with subdomains is "good 
> enough"?

I am afraid not, but I am not authorized to speak as a lawyer.
I was more interested whether anybody tried to find out.

> Just a crazy idea: If mentioning RPM Fusion really is or 
> becomes a problem why not create a completely new project 
> somewhere with a totally separate domain name that does nothing 
> else then providing the fglrx and nvidia driver packages from 
> RPM Fusion in their repos? It should not be much more work then 
> programming and maintaining a small script that mirrors just 
> those drivers and created new repodata for each dir they are 
> found in.

Yeah, probably -- we may end up with something like that -- 
I just thought that it is something which rpmfusion could do most 
easily.

OK, thanks for reply.

Matěj



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