On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Tom Callaway <[email protected]> wrote:
> As distasteful as I find such things, there is nothing in the Copr rules
> that prohibit such hacks, as long as the items they link to are being
> legally provided by the third-party source, and the terms of their
> licensing do not forbid third-part linking (I can't imagine why any
> would, but...).
>
> For example, you can't have a package that just runs wget to download an
> mp3 implementation without a patent license, for the same reasons that
> the mp3 implementation itself is not permissible for Copr.
>
> I would personally be very supportive of FESCo adopting the restriction
> on prohibiting Copr packages which are only useful with external
> non-free or legally restricted items, but that's a FESCo issue, not a
> Fedora Legal one.


Thanks for your clarification!

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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

http://cicku.me
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