Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:30:46PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Thank you for verifying that Suse currently has a credibility problem that arises from the fact that Suse forces their users to use a non-legal and buggy fork but does not at least at the same time allow them to easily use the well maintained original software. Free and Open Source Software allows you to create a fork, but you still have to follow the rules of the law. The problem with the fork "cdrkit" is that is ignores the rules of the law.
What _specific_ legal issues are there concerning the package that SuSE ships?
The same that have been send in December 2006 to the people who introduced the the problems, see e.g.: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html#violations The people who ware repsonsible for the problems have been informed in a more detailled way but they did strictly reject to make the code legal again. Suse is not responsible for the problem itself and suse cannot fix it as the relevent people do not like to fix the problem. The easiest way to deal with the problem is to distriribute the legal original software from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ http://cdrecord.berlios.de and suse will at the same time get all known bugs fixed and a lot of new features. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org