Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (670 mails)

[Daniel Fuhrmann <schoppehaller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 26. September 2008 16:09:58 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
> Hi,
>
> we discussed already once [1] the situation with proprietary software on
> our distribution. We agreed on the list and in an IRC project meeting that
> it's not nice but is very convenient for many users and should stay
> therefor on media.
>
> I'm opening the discussion again as with that we never will achieve a user
> friendly licence as already copying of our software on DVD is not allowed
> and even some mirrors have an issue with this licence. We receive on a
> regular base inquiries in this regards and bad press [2].
>
> Here is our proposal for new discussion.
>
> *Ship any media of openSUSE with open source software and proprietary
> software which allows redistribution (eg. firmware), for details [3].
>
> *Add during installation automatically an online repo with the non-OSS
> stuff and install per default flashplayer (5MB) and the fluendo plug-in
> (210K) for mp3.
>
> This would allow us to offer a user friendly end user licence agreement
> (EULA) and would remove the cause of bad press and angry users reading the
> EULA really carefully.
>
> Some background info:
> - survey of usage of proprietary[4] software showed that only flashplayer
> and acroread really are used by a majority of users (Java is not an issue
> anymore as we ship with 11.1 openJDK)

openJDK is not full functionally!

http://tools.godmode-trader.de/watchlist/

this applet doesn't start with openJDK

Daniel


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