Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Paul C. Leopardi" <paul.leopardi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
> Apologies for the cross-post, but after I posted my reply on opensuse-amd64 I 
> realized that it would be more appropriate to post to this list. Essentially, 
> I am concerned that "Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Individual Contributors to 
> openSUSE.org" is incompatible with the GPL and that it may therefore slow 
> down or halt contributions to openSUSE.org. I am especially concerned about 
> Microsoft's suggested "provision" and want to know whether openSUSE.org will 
> use Microsoft's language when accepting contributions.
>
> See http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-amd64/2006-11/msg00016.html

Please bring the complete post over here...

We're not going to accept contributions from anybody that infringe
valid Microsoft patents, see also my personal blog entry:

http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=629

IMHO the way that the acceptance of contributions works is different
than what Microsoft envisions.

Once the buildservice is up, I imagine: Developer A does some work,
Packager B packages it and submits to the openSUSE buildservice and
some person C accepts it into the factory distribution.  This looks
different to the above.

We're reviewing the statements and I'll discuss with our legal folks
what exactly this means for us and what we could do - and then let's
discuss together whether we want to do it ;-)

Andreas
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