Licensing issues

[limburgher]

In the case of vdrift with a data manager, if you selected "proprietary" data and press ok, maybe a simple dialog box with "There be dragons beyond this point" would make sense. Sort of a EULA and as enforcable but it proves some attempt at due diligence for the lawyer types.

I guess Fedora should wait for the one car / one track that the vdrift devs have been talking about - and/or the data manager component before including in the distro. I haven't touched Fedora in a few years, does it have an automated mechanism to do SRC RPM fetch and build via yum/apt? That might be a quick work around as well if the hosting repo would spray some legalese crap to the screen during the fetch process.

Fedora would be fine with a data manager, AFAIK. There is no automated SRPM fetch/build process that I know of. As it is, I can add any tracks/cars that don't pass muster in Fedora to the Dribble repo. If I'm maintaining both the Fedora RPMs and the Dribble RPMs, then users of Dribble won't have to worry about data migration as tracks and cars get cleared for fedora. I can move data from one RPM to the other in an orderly fashion and the user won't notice. I think packaging the legally dubious data for Dribble would be fine, and negate the need for a data manager.

And at risk of repeating myself, the reason I'm jumping through the lawyer-satisfying hoops and encouraging others to follow is not out of some ideological zeal or pathological fetish, but out of simple self-interest. I want to play Vdrift on Fedora, allow others to do so easily, and not get sued. Period. I can't imagine what's objectionable about that. Fedora has to follow U.S. copright law because that's where it's located.