Stephan Kleine <bitdealer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday February 1 2011 13:36:00 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Juergen Weigert <jw@suse.de> wrote:
Does Suse deliver the original software by default?
Unchanged Yes and No. Yes, through the Build-Service mirrors. No, not on the shipped Products.
So what is the reason for shipping software with many known defects and with an unsettled license/legality status as a default?
That cdrecord upstream seems to be pretty "dense", to say it politely, cause he refuses to settle some "is that license compatible or not" legalese crap by simply dual licensing his software and instead prefers to troll the web over this issue.
Sorry, but you seem to be insufficiently informed about the legal background. There is a single person who claims that there is a "legal problem" with the original software, but that person did never send any legal proof for his claim. There never has been any legal proof at all for his claim made by any trustworthiy lawyer. On the other side, the license state has been checked by the Sun legal department and later by the Oracle legal department and both say that there is no problem with the original software. Even Eben Moglen did send me a private mail that confirms that there is no problem with the original software. Conclusion: you ask for a fix to a non-existent problem.
So it wont happen before cdrecord is dual licensed or the legal issues are resolved - which probably means never quite sadly.
Kidding aside: what exactly is the reason that prevents you from dual licensing cdrecord and thereby resolving the whole issue (which no one else can do) besides "I don't want cause I don't want"?
It is not needed as there is no problem that needs to be fixed. What we however need, is some sort of defense against attacks against OpenSource projects that are only based on libel and slander..... I hope you know that you need to ignore pointless claims and I hope that you know also that you yourself may become an accomplice if you repeat such pointless claims. So please be reasonable and believe what lawyers say instead of believing the claims from laymen. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org