-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-26 at 22:17 +0200, Stephan Binner wrote:
On Friday 26 September 2008 22:00:39 Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
the major complaint is related to the point of the EULA concerning openSUSE redistribution due to the presence of Novell brands.
The Novell brands don't prevent redistribution. They only don't allow you to change the product to something totally different and still call it openSUSE.
As a matter of fact, it is the Novell related EULA the only one that has made me and others rise an eyebrow. >:-) I take for granted the Adobe EULA, but your's too?
key point of openSUSE: offering also proprietary software ready to go on DVD
I don't see this key point. I doubt someone is choosing openSUSE because of that - there are (community) distribution out there who include much more proprietary and other problematic stuff like encrypted DVD, all codecs, ...
But it is true. One of the important points for selecting SuSE, later openSUSE, has always been that some interesting proprietary software was included.
If it is really necessary, a warning pop-up and a checkbox during the installation process to deselect automatically all the non-OSS software
This thread is IMO about being allowed to redistribute the media (complete DVD with all software), not about EULA of single applications you have to agree when installing/using (like [until recently] when starting Mozilla Firefox).
Well, the objections of others to the EULA has been stated by the original poster as a reason for this proposal: ML> This would allow us to offer a user friendly end user licence ML> agreement (EULA) and would remove the cause of bad press and angry ML> users reading the EULA really carefully. It is not the EULAs of single applications the "problem". It is yours ;-p - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjdWf4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VLCQCdE+B66PPY/ZMHtiZOioX96FXz vhAAnim5FbL8YHFEmLphqCSCXjKN8D27 =Idw3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org