On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:09 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:22 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Is it legal to write a gudeline for using 3rd party repositories and
>> how to configure them?
>
> Not if you want to put it on the Fedora wiki.  If you want to put it on
> a private web space you own, have at it, but do not link to it from the
> wiki either.  You can rely on Google to guide people to your page if it
> is helpful -- people will find it and naturally elevate or lower it
> appropriately in the rankings.
>
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Why? Because of the laws in US? Isn't this similar to issue with
posting source code of DeCSS? Isn't that covered by the 1st amendment
and the freedom of speech?

Cheers,
Valent
.
Valent, because the Fedora Project is hosted, both in terms of software as well as an organization in the US, US laws are in effect and must be followed.