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Re: [opensuse-project] Re:Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Individual Contributors to openSUSE.org
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:43:29 +0100
- Message-id: <hovel92cni.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Paul C. Leopardi" <paul.leopardi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Martin,
> What you have said sounds nice, but it does not address any of my concerns. To
> me, it sounds like, "stop worrying and sign the contract on the dotted line
> here..." Well, unfortunately, I'm still at the stage of trying to understand
> what the contract obliges me as a developer to do, obliges Microsoft to do,
> obliges Novell to do. In this case, the contract I am talking about is not
> the Novell/Microsoft deal, but the openSUSE "binding contribution agreement"
> with its provision on "any licenses, covenants or any other rights under any
> Microsoft intellectual property". So far I don't understand what Novell has
> decided to do about this binding contribution agreement, nor do I understand
> what alternative Novell would use to satisfy Microsoft that condition (ii)
> has been met and at the same time satisfy free software developers that the
> GPL has not been violated.
And I cannot answer yet how we move forward here,
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> Martin,
> What you have said sounds nice, but it does not address any of my concerns. To
> me, it sounds like, "stop worrying and sign the contract on the dotted line
> here..." Well, unfortunately, I'm still at the stage of trying to understand
> what the contract obliges me as a developer to do, obliges Microsoft to do,
> obliges Novell to do. In this case, the contract I am talking about is not
> the Novell/Microsoft deal, but the openSUSE "binding contribution agreement"
> with its provision on "any licenses, covenants or any other rights under any
> Microsoft intellectual property". So far I don't understand what Novell has
> decided to do about this binding contribution agreement, nor do I understand
> what alternative Novell would use to satisfy Microsoft that condition (ii)
> has been met and at the same time satisfy free software developers that the
> GPL has not been violated.
And I cannot answer yet how we move forward here,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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