Re: nvidia

From: Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:24:52 -0400

On Sun October 28 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:

Is the livna depository going to be standard for all who get F8? If
not who will tell them they need to set it up and how to do that?

Livna will never be a 'standard' include with Fedora, Karl. It contains
packages which some lawyers argue are in violation of U.S. Copyright laws. If
Fedora were to include links to such a repository in their distribution, they
could open themselves up to lawsuits, since Fedora is U.S. based.

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA

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