If Eric Raymond is willing to say "yes" to this being included in the upcoming fedora-docs project, we should get the XML and get it included. Action: e-mailed esr to get him to look at the bug
Can someone in the know, about the DMCA, also comment on this - apparently having a link/pointer to such a thing is possibly a DMCA violation (and fedora.redhat.com is in the US)
I'm not in favor of adding this to the official documentation -- not because it's not well-written, but because it flies in the face of the goals of the Fedora Project. Those goals include (and I qoute from the Web site at <http://fedora.redhat.com/>: "The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software." The word "exclusively" says it all. ESR's HOWTO document, while a great boon to the user who can resolve their qualms with mixing proprietary software and FOSS (or who has none), is incompatible with the goals of the Fedora Project. There are also numerous legal impediments to posting this document at fedora.redhat.com, some of which have nothing to do with the DMCA. (Many would argue that they have everything to do, however, with regulations that are just as insidious and/or specious.) For just one instance, let's look at the HOWTO instructions on installing MP3 plugin software. MP3 software is patent-encumbered, and in this case the patent holders (Fraunhofer) demand licensing fees from companies that include MP3 software in their products. Hosting a document that effectively induces others to install software that does not meet these demands might represent a legal risk to both the Fedora Project and Red Hat, Inc. Similarly with mplayer and Xine, methinks. However, it might be possible to rewrite this HOWTO including only non-encumbered multimedia software. Since that essentially means the document is *not* ready for publishing, I am removing the fedora-docs tracker bug block.
I agree with Paul. We can not include information on how to add illegal extensions or software to Fedora as part of the Fedora Docs Project.