On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 5:25 AM Javier Llorente <javier@opensuse.org> wrote:
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
El sábado, 14 de noviembre de 2020 16:35:17 (CET) Neal Gompa escribió: 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.
What are the differences between having Packman on installation and having Packman after the installation? If we get the repository list off the Internet, we wouldn't be shipping it :)
I'm not a lawyer, but if openSUSE is the one providing the mechanism to activate and use software from Packman, I believe it counts. Loopholes are not a thing here. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!