Am Samstag, 14. November 2020, 16:50:33 CET schrieb Knurpht-openSUSE:
Op zaterdag 14 november 2020 16:35:17 CET schreef Neal Gompa:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:32 AM Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 13.11.20 18:27, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
As per topic, is there some way to have - the old feature where one could add a repo by URL in the Online Repo Config section of the installer back - the NVIDIA repo present there - the Packman repo there
Some time ago (10 years or more), the then lecal counsel of SUSE explained to me that the problem was, that even providing an easy way to enable a repo with legally / licensing-wise problematic stuff during installation was more or less legally identical to providing the packages.
And the difference of openSUSE to e.g. ubuntu is that ubuntu is a company with no money at all and no assets on some remote channel island (or something like that), so they get away with it because everyone knows that there is nothing to get from them. SUSE OTOH is different in this regard.
That's how I understood it back then, why this was not so easily done.
This is the same reason Fedora requires legal review for all third-party repositories shipped in the distribution. Fedora cannot ship repository configuration files for all of RPM Fusion, just like SUSE cannot have openSUSE ship a configuration module for Packman. The legal risk to the Projects would be horrific.
Hm, SUSE != openSUSE but I would be interested in the actual legal situation... openSUSE Foundation would change the game (and put the risk on the foundation)
Fair enough, Still: Wouldn't the option for the user to add repos by URL not work around that issue?
As long as you can remember the URL during setup ;-) Seriously, it would help, but not the newbie, at least not w/o further hints. Another option could be to move this to the welcome screen, where one can add a search like https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=opensuse+restricted+format I guess that should be legally compliant Cheers Axel