Firstly I am not talking about webmin itself, what I am talking about who would be in situation to query the status of a YaST webmin-like tool (and the purpose of such a query). Sometimes I think you need to get your brain in gear before attacking the keyboard :-)
There are lots of tools availble like that, like ispconfig, sun cobalt control center (that turned into raqdevil for freebsd, and there is a linux variant, bluequartz) swat for samba, etc. Webinterfaces exist since a long time, I doubt any of those are concerned about "IP of webmin". Not to mention comercial tools, like cpanel and etc
Also AFAIK, the status of all variants of the GPL (or any other OS licence ) has as of yet, not been fully tested in a court (i.e. a judge has made a ruling), under any jurisdiction.
First, the webmin license is not GPL, its BSD like. Second, according to what you are saying we shouldnt be using linux, since its GPL, and it wasnt tested in court.
Almost all GPL/OS licence disagreements have gone to settlement before a court can rule on the status of the agreement and until a court *actually* makes a ruling on the status of these licences in a particular jurisdiction their *actual* legal status in that jurisdiction is a moot point... (and there some differences in how different jurisdictions would view their status, and different opinions on those differences).
What does this have to do with your FUD because the guy once worked for SCO (which I couldnt even determine if its true or not)? Is the license bsd like as a whole or does it have a clause saying only novell cant use it? Why would the guy do that if he doesnt even work for sco anymore? Why are you inventing this situation that doesnt exist?
I assume you are also aware that Novell have had the block (under chapter 11 protection) on their legal action against SCO lifted. A webmin-like YasT tool could open the possibility of opening a new line of defence/counter attack for SCO in this particular legal firefight.
Why? Is the case about webmin? Or novell using webmin? Illegal use of webmin? Are you a lawyer? And in the case you are, what does that have to do with unix, yast, novell or opensuse? Is webmin part of unix? In which version was it introduced? Is it in any posix revision? Does it have a standard system call? In which variant, berkeley, sysV, solaris? Xenix?
Last time I looked lawyers do not let little matters like facts get in the way of creating complications, and in general it is not too wise to hand over the horseshit to your enemy so he can pelt you with it..
Last time I looked you were creating conspiracy theories from thin air, and bringing an irrelevant topic for yast control center redesign and for the proposal of yast interface, with connections you dont even have any idea if they make sense or not. Marcio -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org