Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (280 mails)

["Alan Clark" <aclark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 2/9/2011 at 09:51 PM, in message <4D536ECC.50002@xxxxxxx>, Satoru 
> > > Matsumoto
<helios_reds@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Yesterday, this topic was discussed in -project meeting.
> http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2011/opensuse-projec
> t.2011-02-09-16.06.log.html
>
> I appreciate you, meeting participant, discussing this topic and I'm
> sorry I couldn't join the meeting.
>
> Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> > Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> >
> > > * Which country's copyright law and guidelines should we refer to?
> >
> > I think this is the most important question here and should be clarified
> > first. Without clarifying this, further discussions would be invalid.
>
> Sorry if I have confused you. The 2 major issues which I want to clarify
> in this thread are:
>
> 1. License of the contents on *.opensuse.org sites
> 2. Which country's copyright law and guidelines should we refer to,
>    when we want to draw contents from external sites for OWN?
>
> ===================================================================
>
> 1. License of the contents on *.opensuse.org sites
>
> ATM, the contents on Wiki (en.o.o and other $LANG.o.o) are published
> under GFDL 1.2 'unless expressly indicated otherwise'. However, the
> license for contents on other *.opensuse.org isn't defined (we can only
> see the description '© 2010 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.' in footer
> area on most of the *.opensuse.org sites).

The GFDL terms apply to everything at opensuse.org.   See 
http://en.opensuse.org/Legal 


> 2. Which country's copyright law and guidelines should we refer to,
>    when we want to draw contents from external sites for OWN?

Copyright law worldwide is remarkably uniform, and  on most "free use" issues, 
the same result is achieved.  If you're trying to make a use case that's so 
close to the line that it's legal in, say, England, but not legal in, say, the 
United States, you're cutting it way too close to the line.  Better to just 
have a good understanding of general free use principles that are universal and 
stick to those. 
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