Meeting:Board meeting 2008-09-23

Fedora Project Board Meeting :: Tuesday 2008-09-23

Roll Call

Attendees: John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Karsten Wade, Jef Spaleta, Bill Nottingham, Chris Tyler, Seth Vidal, Spot Callaway, Jesse Keating

Regrets: Harald Hoyer

Followup to Previous Business

Codecs (2008-09-16)

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GStreamer_dependencies_in_RPM
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438225
• Seth Vidal is going to meet with Richard Hughes to make sure a EULA associated with a specific package or codec works correctly with PackageKit and associated packages
• UPDATE 2008-09-23
  • RESOLUTIONS
  1. Fedora will only handle packages with EULAs through PackageKit
  2. Fedora does not foresee ever having packages in the official Fedora repos that contain EULAs
  • Remaining questions for follow-up:
  1. What is the regular work flow for codecs in F10 when someone goes to play a media file with a gstreamer enabled player?
  2. What will be the default behavior for a default installation?
  3. Can we confirm that we are no longer prompting for any specific vendor?
  • Spot to track down answers to the remaining questions

Trademark Update (2008-09-16)

• Board wants to maintain a good hold on how the primary Fedora trademark is used while provides lots of latitude for secondary mark
• Process of legal review continues and appears to be moving forward favorably
• trademark guidelines draft has recently been updated and can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines
• UPDATE 2008-09-23
  • Paul Frields has a meeting with with Red Hat legal this week