Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Feb 03, 11 11:19:06 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > hints: openSUSE board, creation of a licence team including lawers
> > (easier when the foundation works)
>
> It would definitely help to ask lawyers.
Guess what we do. 

> If you strictly follow the claims from the GPL [...], the GPL 
> would be incompatible to any other license including BSD

No. Our legal authorities allow me to consider them compatible. 
I am happy with that.


> Please check the table at:
>       http://www.osscc.net/en/licenses.html#compatibility

Thanks for the pointer. This is helpful to start with.
Your compatibility table is still too implicit for us. 
I'd like to see compatibility columns spelled out for the most frequent 
licenses.
GPLv2 compatible: yes/no/?
GPLv3 compatible: yes/no/?
MPL compatible: yes/no/?
...

> In any case, before copying unsourced statements from a non-neutral site, it 
> makes sense to look at the OpenSOource definition [...]

I am not bothered by non-neutral opinion. I have no problem quoting several
(even contradicting) sources side by side, as long as we can clearly see who 
says what.  
My first goal is transparency. Identifying the 'best' license is not
important. Let's collect data about the most frequent licenses so that we 
can cover say 95% of our packages could be a goal.
With 'data' I mean simple visible statements, regardless if they are
debatable, proven or obviously flawed. 

It was repeatedly claimed that only lawyers should be allowed to work with
licenses. This is not true. Most of the above actions require only normal
academic diligence, none of them require understanding or an own opinion.

If jdd, myself, or any other editor would add comments showing their
opinion, I'd beg the community to not give this any particular attention. 
Jdd, thanks for taking initiative!

Actual legal decisions shall be a completely
seperated process. Off topic for now.

        cheers,
                JW-

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