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["jdd (kim2)" <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Schilling a écrit :
> "jdd (kim2)" <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I personally have in theory no problems with letting lawyers check things
> as long as their decisions are not based on false claims.

only a juge can ultimately say a claim is false :-(, usually he listen
to lawyers before taking decision

> The cdrtools code has already been successfully reviewd in depth by the Sun 
> legal department.

this is a very good starting point, but what juge/tribunal/justice
decision says Sun is right?

> projects, but this is (at least for three projects) done in a non-legal way.

your are perfectly right thinking this. But it's only an opinion, not
a fact.

> It is unfortunately obvious that suse usually does not go the way you propose 
> while integrating software.

given the hudge number of open source application, making a legal
survey of any of these seems unlikely. However when there is a
conflict, like it's now, laywers should be involved.

fact is, often, it need a court summon to do so :-(

> -     Either Suse believes in the reults from the legal check from Sun 
>       and starts distributing the original cdrtools as soon as possible....
>
> -     .... or suse _immediately_ stops distributing VCDimager,
>       libcdio and cdrkit. We then start a legal review with cdrtools
>       and do not forward to the other projects before we agree
>       on the results for cdrtools.

You only shows that it's necessary to study more this problem. I
already flaged this to the board and can't do anymore.

I think we all should drop this thread for now.

I'm really worried such things could arise, but don't see any way to
prevent it :-(.

Be only aware than openSUSE is really a new distribution, community
speaking, so our working systems are not optimal.

I beg a clear decision from debian, for example, would have much more
weigth than SUN one in the debate :-(

I think you should keep working on your very good product, and not
losing too much time with this debate (here, the debate content itself
is important) as I don't think we can do more now.

jdd


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