Am Freitag, 26. August 2011, 00:51:30 schrieb Joaquin Sosa:
Flash is already in non-oss repo in openSUSE, so I don't see what is the issue for it to be hosted twice in OBS.
The broadcom firmware openSUSE ships with a script to download it, why not make this an package like pullin-flash-player?
Other distros already distribute the broadcom drivers. Does broadcom really want users not to use their Linux driver?
Patent issues surround the multimedia packages, so what about: pullin-nonbroken-multimedia? Packman hosts the packages with no issues.
No the issues aren't legal, they are closed-minded thinking that just because something is "open source" it's somehow "better."
In this particular case it is not that broadcom can sue us. But when we make it easy that users violate the GPL, we could loose the right to ship any GPL code in future. bye adrian
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 00:41, Greg KH
wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:38:07AM -0400, Joaquin Sosa wrote:
Seriously, who cares?
We do.
Flash and broadcom-wl (and the relevant firmware, too!) should be included in the distribution by default.
The lawyers, and me, will disagree with you.
Likewise, the broken multimedia packages that ship with openSUSE should be replaced by the working, yet somehow "forbidden" ones you describe.
Again, to ignore the law is no defense, and totally childish.
greg k-h -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de
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