Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Ray Cast <raycast@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Robert,I do agree with you that this is an issue only lawyers can 
actually decide.

> This is a list for the FACTORY distribution to discuss where it's going,
> alert others of news and problems on it, and solve issues in this
> development stream of openSUSE.

... but since cdrtools is now in factory again - without the legal issues 
resolve that caused removal from openSuSE before - this does affect the FACTORY 
distribution.
When the cdrtools binaries cannot be distributed legally, they also cannot be 
distributed as part of factory.This is an issue that needs to be resolved 
BEFORE bringing the software here.
That cdrecord has more features than wodim (blue-ray) is nice, but when we do 
not agree with Schilys interpretation of "derived work" and "collective work", 
we still may not offer compiled versions, even when the software is better! 
Just as we can't include Microsoft Internet Explorer, even if we consider it to 
be worthy and it would run on Linux if there is a licensing issue.
So until a suse lawyer we trust (I don't think we can trust Schilys lawyers) 
tells us cdrecord is good, we should probably remove it until then. Just like 
the other distributions did.
Regards,Ray                                       --
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