Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 26, 2017 23:08 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by cozzyd
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

I have a *very* hard time seeing RH Legal blessing use of the negativio repo, given their considerable historic wariness of even appearing to acknowledge the existence of software that is known to infringe on a large pile of patents held by extremely litigious organizations who would have no problem attempting to sue Red Hat out of existence for contributory patent infringement.

(Hmm, maybe I should remove that sole comma..)

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Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 27, 2017 0:49 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

> I have a *very* hard time seeing RH Legal blessing use of the negativio repo,

It is not the repo on the whole. Just the Nvidia driver repo which is independent and doesn't have other packages

https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/

Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 28, 2017 20:39 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (subscriber, #93033) [Link]

And that's important: we're actually not allowed to point to third-party repos that contain more than one package, it has to be one single package for legal review.