Hello, On Jul 16 14:27 Mathias Homann wrote (excerpt):
Am 16.07.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
Pesonally I am against any package manager interaction when it is about installing packages where the legal state is not 100% clean for openSUSE.
I think openSUSE must not provide any kind of semi-automated installation of legally problematic software.
So how do you determine which software is "legally problematic"?
For example... in the USA there are several patents that prevent certain things to be included in linux distributions, but in germany software patents do not exist.
I am not a lawyer and I will not determine which software is "legally problematic" - instead it works the other way round: openSUSE provides only software that is not "legally problematic".
So the only way to technically do what you suggest would be to completely prevent the installation of software, except for packages that come from the official openSUSE repositories.
No. You misunderstood what I meant.
...then how would one install such things as SAP or oracle or any other commercial software?
As it is done right now: The admin of a system under a particular jurisdiction does it on his own in compliance with his particular laws. Of course you can buy a license for an additional proprietary software and install it on your system. The vendor of that proprietary software could even provide it to you via a zypper compatible repository so that you can "just install" it with the openSUSE package manager. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org