"Paul C. Leopardi" <paul.leopardi@iinet.net.au> writes:
Martin, What you have said sounds nice, but it does not address any of my concerns. To me, it sounds like, "stop worrying and sign the contract on the dotted line here..." Well, unfortunately, I'm still at the stage of trying to understand what the contract obliges me as a developer to do, obliges Microsoft to do, obliges Novell to do. In this case, the contract I am talking about is not the Novell/Microsoft deal, but the openSUSE "binding contribution agreement" with its provision on "any licenses, covenants or any other rights under any Microsoft intellectual property". So far I don't understand what Novell has decided to do about this binding contribution agreement, nor do I understand what alternative Novell would use to satisfy Microsoft that condition (ii) has been met and at the same time satisfy free software developers that the GPL has not been violated.
And I cannot answer yet how we move forward here, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126