Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sid Boyce<sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-legal-list@redhat.com/msg00506.html
The details in msg00506 sums it up nicely. The CDDL ruled out using code under that license being used in Linux - by intention - it's code owned by Sun.
If you like to spread FUD, this is your decision. It is not related to reality - sorry.
The person you are quoting here is no laywer and even otherwise completely uninformed about legal principles in general and the specific case in special. I tend to believe that he does not spread FUD by _intention_, but he unfortunately spreads FUD.
I'm merely a bystander viewing this discussion from the sidelines, but calling someone from Fedora legal "completely uninformed about legal principles" without even addressing his findings is not helping your reputation here or anywhere else. Also, you're spreading enough FUD on cdrkit that it doesn't shed a good light on you from a neutral perspective if you accuse others of the same. It seems to me that you are very personally emotional on this topic and I get the impression that you feel betrayed by major players turning away from your beloved pretty child and turning to its ugly stepsister. The problem is that getting emotional creates exactly the opposite reaction in other people from the one you want, and accusations only help to make other people angry, and not not to make them buy into your arguments. Free and Open Source Software is about enabling choice, options and free innovation, strong ownership and hard ruling on code philosophically collides with that heavily, while embracing forks and different ideas or strains of thought are completely in line with it. Accusing other projects of misdeed, thumbing them down, and calling them out will never get you anywhere in the open source community. Being open on collaboration and constructive in solving issues is the only way to get things done to include your way. Try that, you might find you like it after all! But above all, try to put all your personal feelings and in-depth topic knowledge aside and try to view your actions from the point of view of someone reading all that, maybe then you'll understand the reactions you get better afterwards. Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org