Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

> I don't think so, please read the linked LWN story. It was about the *license 
> of a development release* including things like "prohibits redistribution for 
> compensation and use in a production environment".

OK. 

> > I don't buy the story of mirrors having problems, because they mirror
> > exactly the same distributions that offer practically everything restricted.
> >
> > So we want the media easier to be redistributed (as if now someone
> > doesn't do that already...they even sell it online) on one hand to reach
>
> Some mirrors and merchants violating current licenses is no reason that should
> make us stop to simplify our license. :-)

Technically all the mirrors hosting the DVD are violating it, strictly
speaking. And I don't see how this will be solved with a non-OSS
repository. The current configuration of non-OSS repositories won't
change anything for mirrors, for example.
So does Novell plan to split the non-OSS repository in two, one with the
redistributable part on the usual mirrors, and another one with the
non-redistributable packages? And where would this be hosted?

Regards,
Alberto

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