"Carlos E. R."
Lawyers will not write on mail lists, even less "on the record". AFAIK, you pay them, they talk to you, in private.
They will do if you ask them to do so. Everybody who did ever hire a lawyer knows that lawyers of course will give you useful explanations on why they believe that their interpretation is correct and they will usually prove this with pointers to the related parts of the law and to related parts of a contract or license.
It is Novell lawyers who have to be asked, and let them decide. More talk by us is irrelevant - except to chat if we take the risk or not, here or in the project mail list.
Up to now, the only distro that ever asked lawyers was Sun for the Solaris distro. The result was that there of course is no legal problem with cdrtools. It may be important to mention here that Sun at the same time stopped distributing "libcdio" because of legal problems. It is obvious that Sun made decisions based on consultation from lawyers, one pro (for cdrtools) and one against (for libcdio). Suse however still seems to distribute "libcdio" even though the existence of legal problems with libcdio have been published in 2007 already. For cdrtools, we have no other expression from lawyers than the OK from "Sun legal" that has been recently confirmed by "Oracle Legal". I may need to repeat that Debian has absolutely no legal verification for their claims, so what Debian does must be seen as a diffamation campaign against a OSS project. If Suse would tell people that cdrtools is not distributed because of "license problems" and there would not be a legal verification that could be commented by other lawyers at the same time, it could be interpreted as if Suse would join the diffamation campaign that has been initiated by Debian. There are unfortunately several people who write to this list and who just repeat unproven claims that have been distributed by Debian. I encourage anyone on this list to check facts before sending a new comment. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org