Greg KH
What _specific_ legal issues are there concerning the package that SuSE ships?
The same that have been send in December 2006 to the people who introduced the the problems, see e.g.:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violations
If those are the specific things you are claiming, I will respectively disagree that there is any violations here.
You are not the Copyright holder - I am! As you are not the Copyright hilder, your personal belief is not important..... There are of course Copyright violations and as you cannot influence them, it does not make sense to give you more information on the specifics of the Copyright violations. These informations have been given to the people who are reponsible for the Copyright violation. You are just the downstream of a hostile upstream that created the fork. If you (suse) however continue to distribute the code although you have been informed about the problem, you may be sued because of the Copyright violation. I am disappointed to see that you try to deny the fact of a copyright violation without giving _any_ information on what your "decision" was based. Anyway, if you are showig good will with fixing the current problem by starting to distribute the legal original software again, I may give you some time to recover from the mistake of switching to the illegal fork. 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