Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > The ripping things out of tarballs policy seems really weird to me. > It means, for example, that I can't compare the hash of the openssl > tarball to upstream's. > > Is it really necessary? I understand that Fedora can't ship anything > infringes on a patent, but I had the distinct impression that patents > didn't cover uncompiled source code.
Your impression is incorrect, afaik, ianal, yada yada. Everything fedora ships needs to be freely re-distributable, including the source code. -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
