On 11/19/2006 12:04 PM, susedevel@torchlighttech.com wrote:
onto that other thing with Novell owning what we say, taht's not it at all. What it is, what is said here, no one owns. So if Novell, or anyone else, decides to take what is said in say a forum and put it in their marketing material, they can. If I decide to write a magazine article containing information from this mailing list, I can. It's like, Open Source for words.
Actually the Novell User Submissions Policy is for ANYTHING submitted to Novell - list messages, code patches, cute pictures of your pets. Once you send it to Novell, their policy is that they can use it however they like without any attribution to you. In a way this separates you from the work, you no longer control it, they are free to do with it what they will. It IS Open Source. My point was that Novell doesn't make any kind of deal with you, the contributor of forum postings, code, cute pictures, or whatever. If you send Novell some stuff of any sort, Novell neither agrees to protect you from some kind of legal action involving your stuff, nor asks for an agreement from you not to take legal action against Novell for any reason. Here is the question, more clearly this time: If Novell neither protects its contributors from legal action nor requires that its contributors refrain from taking legal action, how can Novell reach an agreement with Microsoft that allows Microsoft to protect/restrict Novell's contributors in these ways? Saill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org