On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:20, Jesse Keating wrote:
Because of the EULA you must agree to prior to installing said plugins. It's not legal for Red Hat to distribute said plugins.
Jesse, Exactly right. As an alternative I think it would be very helpful (and legal) if Red Hat were to include RHL-specific installation scripts for Java et al to make it easier for us to find, download, and install them. These might be distributed in a '3rd-party-install-scripts' RPM. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
Well depending on how paranoid a business you are, Red Hat would need to get permission from each company organization that originated the code. IE Sun would have to give permission for Red Hat to link to its Java engine sites, Real for the old player, Apple for quicktime codecs, etc etc. [Knowing how quick their lawyers seem to jump on infringers who have pocket books.. I would probably be paranoid.]
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:20, Jesse Keating wrote:
Because of the EULA you must agree to prior to installing said plugins. It's not legal for Red Hat to distribute said plugins.
Jesse, Exactly right. As an alternative I think it would be very helpful (and legal) if Red Hat were to include RHL-specific installation scripts for Java et al to make it easier for us to find, download, and install them. These might be distributed in a '3rd-party-install-scripts' RPM. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
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On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:23, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
Well depending on how paranoid a business you are, Red Hat would need to get permission from each company organization that originated the code. IE Sun would have to give permission for Red Hat to link to its Java engine sites, Real for the old player, Apple for quicktime codecs, etc etc. [Knowing how quick their lawyers seem to jump on infringers who have pocket books.. I would probably be paranoid.]
Codeweavers does this kind of deep linking now with their plugin, but you could argue they don't have deep enough pockets to get sued (yet).
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