Am Sunday 04 June 2006 12:54 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
Adrian Schröter wrote:
Am Sunday 04 June 2006 00:34 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
Richard Bos wrote:
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The best place to host those channel rpms are of course suse itself as they get than mirrored automatically. But as you already stated that might not be possible due to law implications.
s/might/will/
I started a thread/discussion with the SUSE folks about that when openSUSE started. I was asking them whether it would be possible to do some refinements in YaST2, to have it fetch a list of repositories from, say, opensuse.org and propose them to the end-user as additional repos.
It became pretty clear that it wouldn't be possible, because of ridiculous court rulings in the US and Germany (e.g. the Heise case), where "linking" to a resource that provides a package that under certain circumstances and/or jurisdictions would be.. well.. "attackable" in court, is already sufficient for potential trouble.
The issue was a task to.. mm.. I think it was Adrian, to take it to Novell's legal dept, but there was never any feedback on it (and it was in November 2005). Dunno if anything came back about that.. Adrian ?
The problem is that this decisions needs to be made for each software seperatly. For example it is very unlikely that this would be ever possible with DeCSS, but there are maybe chances for other stuff like mp3 playback. This will of course take much resources for each package at the legal department :/
OK, now I get it, I thought it was some blessing of linking to repositories that provide packages that ...
Note, I'm not talking about building and hosting packages like mad in the Build Service, that's another topic.
Yes, I understood that, but there seems no to be much difference between linking and building it legal wise. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org