On Friday 19 March 2010 18:10:05 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 03/19/2010 05:23 PM, Karsten König wrote:
I don't think Bryen wanted to rant about Novells hosting here, I think this was more about if Novell would be willing to host such "renegade" material ;-)
I read planetsuse since day1 and there was never ever any "renegade" material. And if you think Novell scans all content of all Novell hosted opensuse sites and allows only certain input you are also very much mistaken. Novell is a service provider for the openSUSE community. They gladly host our stuff because they want us to succeed. Hosting is, like staffing, a big contribution Novell gives the openSUSE project. That does not mean that you can do whatever you want on our hosts. It has to be A) Legal and B) in accordance to our Guiding Principles. We, the openSUSE project, will get rid of every violation pronto. The content is ours so also ours to care about.
Agreed, but we all know it isn't always that simple, there is a lot of blur
wrt certain pieces of software and the fact that it might be linked to Novell
in one way or another.
I think it's more than understandable that there is such uncertainty as
certain things are OK (linking to Packman packages on planetsuse ?), some are
not (having a search ending that points to Packman packages ?), etc... But I
guess we have to live with that as it's the very nature of what's dubbed with
"legal" ;)
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser