https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856805#c15 --- Comment #15 from qvacfcajdjw@mailinator.com M8R-2yr72d@mailinator.com <M8R-2yr72d@mailinator.com> 2014-03-03 08:55:47 UTC ---
we have a cup of tea. Several tea experts tasted the tea and confirmed that there is no sugar in the tea.
No, actually, we gave a SINGLE TEA MANUFACTURER (you), that **claims** but never proves there are "several" tea experts. Except that these tea experts don't come forward with their "confirmation". THEY DO NOT EXIST when it comes to _documented_ opinions. All you provide is HERESAY. All we have is YOU. And I don't think we can trust your heresay, sorry. Oh, and we have SEVERAL Linux distributions who debate your opinion, and which removed cdrtools because of this. That removal is a FACT, isn't it? Even SUSE removed cdrtools; FACT. Now cdrtools is suddenly back, and there is NO EXPLANATION of why it is now possible to bring cdrtools back, when it was necessary to remove it x years ago. Something smells FISHY here, you know. I'd like to get some actual legal expert give his opinion, because you aren't a legal expert, and I'm not one either. You are heavily biased; I'm concerned about whether your opinion is correct, when obviously other Linux distributions disagree. Unfortunately, Ciaran Farrell also did not yet make any actual statement, except pointing out that cdrtools is "not deleted" (which is actually why I filed this bug report). Because in the end, it's apparently him who has to decide this issue for SUSE. But even then, I ask for a clarification. Because I need to be sure that I can also distribute cdrtools to my users _legaly_. As is, I have the impression that the cdrtools issue is currently just being shrugged of with a "who cares, it's CDDL and GPL code, both are open source", but doesn't take the (apparently present) unsatisfiably of the license into account. As long as there are so many people voicing concerns about the cdrtools license, I'd prefer to go the safe way. There is clearly nothing wrong with not distributing cdrtools, is there?
I am not sure whether you know that the legal denomination for such acting is libel and slander. This is a punishable offence in Europe.
Please stop making random legal threats agains people just because they are concerned about the license terms. This sure won't get people to cooperate with you, and is probably why you built up such a bad reputation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.