Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 14:53:55 schrieb Basil Chupin:
On 24/02/10 00:11, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 24 février 2010, à 00:01 +1100, Basil Chupin a écrit :
And I will ask - if I ask - the question which pops into my mind right now as to who actually owns openSUSE after I have read the Guiding Principles.
It's a free software project: it's owned by its contributors. And if we get some openSUSE Foundation later on, this won't change: the Foundation will just handle the legal and financial aspects of the project, but it will still be owned by the contributors.
Vincent
Thank you for your response.
I am about to go to bed but had to ask this:
have you read the entries in the wikipedia for "openSUSE" and "openSUSE Project"?
I just did.
May I respectfully suggest that someone edit the entries in wikipedia to reflect the facts which you just stated that, "but [openSUSE] will still be owned by the contributors." and not by Novell.
What part of both articles are you refering to? I only see Novell mentioned as sponsor, which is just stating the fact that Novell contributes a large chunk to openSUSE development. There isn't even a word about "ownership" or similar, beeing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software already is enough to point out who runs the project, ownership isn't an appropriate term.
(But I have yet to read the Guidelines mentioned by Henne so my response is based on ignorance of what the Guidelines contain. [But people reading the wikipedia entries don't see the Guidelines - do they?].)
Wikipedia beeing an encyclopedia of course only gives an overview of openSUSE, the guidelines are for people who want to identify and contribute so they know what openSUSE strives for. Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org