Michael Loeffler wrote:
We're asking for your buy-in for having a more friendly EULA, to make the distribution of openSUSE easier and get the software in more hands.
BTW: we'll replace the proprietary agfa-fonts with the open source alternative Liberation fonts with openSUSE 11.1.
This whole discussion is getting far too academic. When the Inuit user "Alpha" in China downloads anything from an openSUSE mirror in Brasil, burns the CD or DVD, travels to Switzerland and installes openSUSE on his laptop there (which he purchased in Tunesia a year ago) and goes on to Canada only overpaid and undereducated lawyers will claim an EULA has got any kind of validity there. So before discussing these rather very local and domestic legal issues, Novell should evalute first into which country to place the download server and into which (other) country the issuing agent for openSUSE (this has nothing to do, where Novell and SuSE people will be located). If it helps to develop openSUSE market share to look at the licence matter from the Utah or Northern Bavaria positions then fine. But if we get faster, wider and better to our market by looking at the matter from a Fidji, Kenia or China positions, then let's put issuing server and entity there. And only then we should disscuss licensing issues (if there will be still some left at all). Our current approach seems short-sighted and not strategic to me. FMF -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org