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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Regarding the software that will never be able to make it into Fedora, may
> it be Core, Extras or any other part, I also agree that we need a list
> somewhere for reference and where to direct recurrent requests. I guess a
> Wiki page would be enough, with a list of obvious reasons "Copyrighted
> material", "Patented code in the USA", "Non-free license" etc. and lists of
> precise software concerned.
>
It would be good if the reason was verbose enough that license changes/patent
expiry/etc could quickly be compared to the former legal reasons for
excluding the software to see if anything's really changed or what specific
license requirements are problematic. A list that would have been helpful
to explain the MySQL 4 problems to people at various stages, for instance.
-Toshio
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