On Saturday 27 September 2008, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
on Freitag, 26. September 2008, Michael Loeffler wrote:
Here is our proposal for new discussion.
*Ship any media of openSUSE with open source software and proprietary software which allows redistribution (eg. firmware), for details [3].
This page lists only firmware packages in the "would stay on media" section.
Do all the other packages really forbid redistribution or is the proposal partly driven the "remove non-oss" way? To clarify this and to make decision easier, can you please fill out the following table?
(1) allows redistribution (inside an ISO image) (2) needs license or note displayed in general EULA (3) needs license displayed on package install
package | (1) | (2) | (3) | --------------------+-------+-------+-------+ acroread | | | | antivir | | | | flashplayer | | | | fluendo plug-in | | | | moneyplex | | | | Opera | | | | SEPsesam | | | | unrar | | | | Some of them allow redistribution on the ISO. Some are redistributable but so rarely used (e.g. SEPsesam). So why sacrify space on the DVD for software used by few people?
The "Adobe" family does not allow redistribution. For acroread there are eqivalent open source vesions available. For flashplayer still no good open source versions available. But I'm wonder - we all want to support open source software, but if it comes to the point of convencience too many say we need to have this proprietary stuff. M
IMHO the best solution would be to ship all packages that allow redistribution (1) without a note inside the general EULA (2) so that the media could ship with a user friendly EULA.
Having to display a package-specific license (3) is a non-issue because it can be avoided by not installing the package by default.
- with the distribution of 90%+ of broadband access amongst our users
Please keep in mind that modem users are less likely to answer surveys ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz -- MSCE Führerschein für die Maus. (Thore Tams)
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