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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Proposing community repositories in YaST2
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:35:05 +0100
- Message-id: <hopsobo62u.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Some (many) weeks ago, I started a discussion with a few SUSE folks about adding a feature in YaST2
> that would download a list of community repositories from a central location (opensuse.org) - in a
> similar fashion as YOU does - and propose it as a checklist (including a description, etc...) to the
> end-user. She'd just need to click the community repository and it would be included in the list of
> installation sources for YaST2.
>
> The main issue (besides YaST2 developers most certainly not being happy about adding a feature ;))
> is legal: some repositories (such as packman and mine) provide packages that are not unencumbered
> for distribution in some countries, most notably the US (e.g. lame, mad, MPlayer).
>
> SUSE Linux would still not _include_ such repositories but would _link_ to them, indirectly.
> Although this seems unproblematic, it is not, see the Heise case (lost in german court because they
> published an article that links to a piece of software with which one can read encrypted DVDs).
>
> Adrian and/or AJ wanted to ask Novell's legal dept about it, but there has not been any feedback up
> to now. As I can imagine both of you guys have shitloads of work to do all the time, I post this
> mail as a reminder. And if you have some more information about it, it would be nice to let us know :)
Thanks for the remainder. Adrian is on vacation right now, so (even
if I set I wait for Adrian to come back), I'll try to get it solved
now...
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> Some (many) weeks ago, I started a discussion with a few SUSE folks about adding a feature in YaST2
> that would download a list of community repositories from a central location (opensuse.org) - in a
> similar fashion as YOU does - and propose it as a checklist (including a description, etc...) to the
> end-user. She'd just need to click the community repository and it would be included in the list of
> installation sources for YaST2.
>
> The main issue (besides YaST2 developers most certainly not being happy about adding a feature ;))
> is legal: some repositories (such as packman and mine) provide packages that are not unencumbered
> for distribution in some countries, most notably the US (e.g. lame, mad, MPlayer).
>
> SUSE Linux would still not _include_ such repositories but would _link_ to them, indirectly.
> Although this seems unproblematic, it is not, see the Heise case (lost in german court because they
> published an article that links to a piece of software with which one can read encrypted DVDs).
>
> Adrian and/or AJ wanted to ask Novell's legal dept about it, but there has not been any feedback up
> to now. As I can imagine both of you guys have shitloads of work to do all the time, I post this
> mail as a reminder. And if you have some more information about it, it would be nice to let us know :)
Thanks for the remainder. Adrian is on vacation right now, so (even
if I set I wait for Adrian to come back), I'll try to get it solved
now...
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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