On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 15:39 -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:28 +0000, Paul W. Frields 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.
Paul, does this mean even documenting the technique of adding a
3rd-party repository is not something we want in the Wiki? Not all
3rd-party repositories must consist of non-free or patent-encumbered
software, even if that is the norm.
Ah, I see I overreached the question. You can document how to add a
repository to your configuration, but in documenting, you cannot use as
an example any repository that contains forbidden bits, nor suggest that
this is a way to obtain forbidden bits. Might I suggest the CBI
(Cooperative Bug Isolation) project?
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/
This is a totally FOSS way to contribute to the bettering of free
software.
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