-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
[...] It's not possible, because most community repositories (at least Packman and mine) contain packages that Novell cannot link to, for legal reasons (e.g. packages like lame, mad, ...). Well, actually, it's for potential patent infringement problems (not copyright issues).
Yes, even *linking* or referencing the Packman or guru (or whatever) repository is a potential problem for Novell.
If it's a problem for Novell to provide a simple link to your repository (or the packman repository), why are you allowed to publish the packages mentioned above? Because you're not a company?
Because I (and Packman, and the nice people who host all that) am willing to take the risk and because it's still a little bit of a "legal grey zone". If it was very clear that it is illegal, I wouldn't do so (well, ok, the mad patent vs GPL issue makes it pretty much illegal, but so what). The situation is somewhat different for Novell. It's a company, and it's located in the US, where it only takes some idiot to put his cat into a microwave oven to sue the business that sells it. Novell just doesn't want to take the risk of getting sued. The "risks" I (and others) are taking for the good of the users is certainly not comparable by any means. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEwhfKr3NMWliFcXcRAoDOAKCCCuDyM/z3zTeitxaNkPDJTloeDQCffZiK L6ojvm5BwoaUvW6jYiieR0A= =vX8h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org