On Thursday 06 August 2009 14:30:10 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Andreas Jaeger
wrote: Whether it then replaces the current packages, is a separate decision,I doubt that the timing for 11.2 is good. But open source is about choice, so if everybody is happy with the "new" package and there's a good and friendly cooperation between distribution, packager and upstream project, I expect we can discuss removing the other one for 11.3,
Just to make this explicit: A review contains also a legal review - and that includes checking the license and whether there are license incompatibilities,
This license review has already been done by the Sun legal department.
Every project has to do its on review. What others uncover and what decisions they make, is a good input into the review but still somebody has to review it. Btw. Sun is not distributing a Linux distribution, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126