Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, JBScout wrote:

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> on the other hand I understand the situation from Novell. but thats 
> something that could be clared. if not for the openSUSE-side then for 
> the boxed version where costumers pay for it: get the right license and 
> put it into the box ! thats the only way I think.

Agreed, but as Sonja already pointed out, this topic is much more complex 
than it seems. However, I wouldn't talk about this without talking 
to my lawyer first ;)


> and by the way this topic is on the list here already: why don't talk 
> about it on the list ? you can't open a project to the comunity ( or 
> better. try to create your owen couminity !) and when topics needed a 
> discussion take it out of the list. I totaly agree with you when it come 
> to make decisions it is on your side - but the way how to came to it 
> should be something where the people who speend there time into the 
> project needed to be heared.

If you are refering to the development model of openSUSE, we didn't say we 
don't talk about this on the list. The point is, that we are all quite 
busy working on SUSE Linux 10.0 right now and that it doesn't really make 
sense to try to start a huge discussion now.

When it comes to legal / licensing issues, it's simply not that easy to 
talk about it in the public if you aren't really into that topic and don't 
want to risk your job ;)


Regards
	Christoph