Max Spevack of RedHat Inc. sent an open letter to the fedora-announce list on Tuesday basically stating that RedHat is giving up on the Fedora Foundation.
This is not to say that Fedora is going away, the idea of the non-profit legal status of such a foundation to support Fedora is going away, to be reborn into the Fedora Project Board which will now have complete authority over the Fedora project, including budgetary control.
There were multiple legal and monetary hurdles as well as legal ramifications regarding copyright and patent protection that made this move sensible.
Posted by yakuza at April 6, 2006 02:58 PM | TrackBack