Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 14:30:10 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Whether it then replaces the current packages, is a separate decision,I
> > > doubt that the timing for 11.2 is good. But open source is about
> > > choice, so if everybody is happy with the "new" package and there's a
> > > good and friendly cooperation between distribution, packager and
> > > upstream project, I expect we can discuss removing the other one for
> > > 11.3,
> >
> > Just to make this explicit: A review contains also a legal review - and
> > that includes checking the license and whether there are license
> > incompatibilities,
>
> This license review has already been done by the Sun legal department.

Every project has to do its on review.  What others uncover and what decisions 
they make, is a good input into the review but still somebody has to review 
it.

Btw. Sun is not distributing a Linux distribution,
Andreas
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