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|Typo in CLA||SethVidal||point 5 on page 3 mentioned 'atents' instead of what it should read which is 'patents'. | |Typo in CLA||SethVidal||point 5 on page 3 mentioned 'atents' instead of what it should read which is 'patents'. | ||
Revision as of 15:00, 28 July 2008
Fedora Legal Questions
aka the "We Are Not Lawyers" page
This page describes all currently open legal questions associated with the Fedora Project. These are questions asked by the Fedora community. Posting a question here does not imply that we will provide legal advice for that question -- it's a place to track our own concerns.
For priority: 1 is "do it now", 2 is "do it soon", 3 is "do it at some point".
| Issue | Requestor | Notes |
| Priority 1 | ||
| Translation of legal notice. | FDSCo | To translate the FDP legal notice, we need it approved by a lawyer in each language; should RH translators do the initial work? Is this even possible, considering the different laws of different countries? Might be simpler now, let's look at this after we settle down our licensing discussions. |
| Priority 2 | ||
| CLA in german | FabianAffolter | Handling of the German Version of CLA in the Fedora Project. It's a translation to help new constributer to understand and not a replacement of the original version of the CLA. |
| Typo in CLA | SethVidal | point 5 on page 3 mentioned 'atents' instead of what it should read which is 'patents'. |
| Priority 3 | ||
| libmimic statsus | NadeDamien | http://www.jblinux.net/libmimic/ An LGPL video encoding/decoding library for Mimic V2.x- encoded conten, which is the encoding used by MSN Messenger for webcam conversations. |
Fedora Legal Closed Issues
Legal issues that we've closed are listed below.
| Issue | Requestor | Resolved Date | Notes |
| Firefox naming in Fedora | Enrico Scholz | 9 Sept 2006 | Fedora Project via Red Hat has explicit permission to retain the brand names from Mozilla Corporation to use pango related modifications that has been made in Firefox and Thunderbird |
| Copyright and license on materials on fedoraproject.org, specifically in the Wiki | FDSCo | 9 Sept 2006 | Everybody who contributes to the wiki MUST sign CLA and the current wiki license along with the rest of formal Fedora documentation is under OPL license without the options |
| Inclusion of Mono | FESCO | 10th Jan 2006 | Mono is in rawhide now. http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html and http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/?p=159 |
| szip Licensing | Tom Callaway | 22sep2005 | Szip's license was determined to be incompatible with Fedora Extras. |
| Blessing external forums | FESCO | 11mar2005 | According to counsel, there's no risk in referring our users to any other "blessed" forum however we see fit. We are sending users there for help, nothing more, and are not likely to be held responsible for content there. |
| Monkey audio licensing issues | MichaelSchwendt | 11mar2005 | Monkey audio package has been pulled, so this is a non-issue. |
| NTFS legality | WarrenTogami | 11mar2005 | Microsoft has a number of patents around NTFS. Because of these issues, counsel feels that adding ntfs support runs the risk of significantly endangering the project. Therefore, NTFS will continue to be excluded from Fedora. Bug 65749 has been amended to reflect this decision. GianlucaSforna: this was recently reconsidered |
| Naming contest | FESCO | 11mar2005 | Naming contest is approved; since there's no fungible value to the "prize," and since we control the names in question, there's no legal risk entailed. |
| Linking to fedorafaq.org et al | FDSCo | July 2005 | Where and under what conditions can we link to fedorafaq.org and related sites that may have links to potentially illegal stuff? -- resolution, we can link directly to this site but not explain what you may find there, other than general help for Fedora users. |