On Monday 01 March 2010 11:29:27 Basil Chupin wrote:
All of them.
But I am not 'discussing' them. I am only asking questions. To which I would have expected answers to have been asked and arrived at long ago by members of "the board", for example.
The last time I tried to install (unsuccessfully) the Milestone 1 version of openSUSE 11.3 KDE Live I was asked the question of whether I accepted the (?)Conditions of Use Licence.
If you use the graphical YaST, it shows you the message but does not ask for acceptance just gives it to you as a FYI. Read http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_License - and check blog postings about how it's done.
This is not the first time this has been asked (in earlier versions of oS). This indicates to me that the Novell legal department is very much involved in the openSUSE distribution - or that people putting openSUSE are falling down in their job and putting in legal conditions into openSUSE which do not belong there. Which is it? No matter.
Please read and understand the License before making the above claims.
I am not trying to blame anyone but I am trying to find out as to who actually MANAGES openSUSE, who CONTROLS it, WHO is the person who says, "The buck stops with ME"? WHO? I asked these questions in another thread (I think) but got the usual gooblydook about "community" yaba-yaba-yaba
:-( .
Let me ask first back with another question: Who manages the internet? The openSUSE project has Novell employees working on it - and those have a manager etc. But the project itself consists of various teams and each team decides on their own what they do and how they come to decisions. So, you could perhaps call Sascha the manager of the openSUSE Weekly News but their's nobody controlling him besides his team members, the community and the board.
(Why do I ask these questions, you ask, and continue to ask?
Because nobody has given me - no anyone else - a clear answer.
Why hasn't a clear answer been given?
Because I don't think anybody has the clear answer - except for the management of Novell and its legal advisers.)
Just as a matter of curiosity, a person from Canonical asked a question
The person starting the thread was not from Canonical.
- which is what started this thread - and how is his question being resolved and by whom? I have seen the responses to the OP but are the responses "official"? At least one of the responses appeared to indicate that 'the matter needed a decision by someone higher up the chain' or at least this is what I read into it.
Looking at the thread, I think it's important to understand the issues and then decide together what to do - and if that's consensus, why would a higher authority need to "approve" this? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, 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