On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Vincent Untz
Another problem is that the opensuse.org domain is controlled by Novell not the openSUSE project, so we can't use it for things like planet suse, software portal, community wiki et al without Novell endorsing the content therein, which we've been told is not possible for things that might link to patent infringing software for instance.
I'm not sure this is true, strictly speaking. We could ask legal (which I'm not sure has ever been done) if we assume any risks by extending a subdomain to a server controlled by a third party. The tricky bit I think comes in when we host it ourselves. There's also the question of DNS management, etc.: If it's hosted under opensuse.org, we have to depend on IS&T to make DNS changes, which may take a bit longer than if the DNS is managed by someone in the community.
So, hrm, how can we change this? :-) I guess we can't change this easily in the short term, but does it make sense in the long term to have the opensuse.org domain controlled by, say, the board? (question for the board, I guess)
Feel free to propose that to the board.
Best,
Zonker
--
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier