On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 20:08 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 02 November 2007 06:08:36 am Aniruddha wrote: [...]
Why not put libxine on the openSUSE servers (not on the cd) and let user decide themselves if they are legally entitled in using it? There is nothing wrong with that.
In US even making it easy is not permitted. I remember case where company offered DVD decoding software letting users to decide, and lost the case. The other is more prominent example is Napster. Their defense was that users should know what is allowed and what not.
I don't get it. Why is it that Ubuntu/Debian/FreeBSD/Gentoo/PCLinuxOS can easily offer restricted formats from their own repositories? In what way is openSUSE different that it can't provide the same functionality?
-However I do feel that the real problem is that Novell keeps acces to the core packages to themselves.
This is not the case as long as one has access to sources. It is possible to start own SVN with that sources and develop in any thinkable direction. The only limitation are registered trademarks and logos, but that is documented: http://en.opensuse.org/Debranding and it has a tool: http://en.opensuse.org/Rembrand
I am more looking for synergy then forking ;)
I think it would be far better to setup a structure to attract developers from the community (we have enough quality packagers) and to let them maintain (maybe with the aid of Novell devs) the openSUSE core packages. Ideally this would blend the Packman repository with the openSUSE core packages.
It will with growth of build service, and change in laws.
What is the best way to propose this to Novell? Is a bugreport the best way? Or maybe an e-mail?
You can do that in project mail list. They probably look for the sponsor.
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