This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Posted Feb 16, 2017 11:13 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state by vxIjhjYG
Parent article: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

I'd guess that it's more prosaic; the calendar is effectively a nice way to present legal advice that could be trivially rewritten as "Red Hat's legal team believe that there are no patents affecting $thing after $date". Given that it's legal advice, you run into the usual "this isn't legal advice and I'm not your lawyer" issues - from Red Hat's point of view, it's simpler to not publish the calendar at all (in any form) than to publish it, have to keep it updated, deal with problems caused when they update it on the basis of new information but you don't get the update etc.