Give write access to the cisco repository to Fedora/SuSE? [LWN.net]

Give write access to the cisco repository to Fedora/SuSE?

Posted Jun 3, 2025 7:08 UTC (Tue) by mokki (subscriber, #33200)
Parent article: OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora

If cisco hosts the server and provides write access to Linux distributions, it would remove all this communication problems from the process and allow fully automatic and timely distribution.

That should still legally remain the same, it should not matter if cisco gets the packages it distributes via email or via sftp.

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Give write access to the cisco repository to Fedora/SuSE?

Posted Jun 3, 2025 11:47 UTC (Tue) by 1ace (subscriber, #103978) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe it does matter, the automation is the thing that needs to _not_ be there, it has to be manually put online by a human employed by Cisco to be covered by the Cisco license.

Give write access to the cisco repository to Fedora/SuSE?

Posted Jun 3, 2025 13:03 UTC (Tue) by mokki (subscriber, #33200) [Link]

True, it could be that some human interaction is required at some point to fulfill the license.
But is it enough that a cisco employee has set-up intentionally the automation and the download site?

If not, then we could flip the flow so that we ask cisco to once set up a daily cron+rsync from koji to their server. It should not be any different than cisco internal systems providing the downloaded firmware/codecs to their other appliances (which I assume are automated). I hope the license does not require that for every download and upload there has to be a human explicitly involved.