Robert Kaiser
Still, I'm only an interested user and fan of both openSUSE as well as truly open licenses that allow free code exchange and forking for everyone, who is following this discussion from the sidelines.
You still do not understand what you are talking about. You of course still have to follow legal rules if you fork software and the problem is that Eduard Bloch ignored these rules when he modified the code. The important thing you need to know is that you need to honor the rights of the copyright holder. OpenSOurce Software cannot be based on hate and wodim is based on hate. The fact that more than one Linux distributor is in conflict with the copyright law does not cause thinge to become legal. If this is a technical list, then people could just admit that they don't have the skills to discuss legal problems. It is bad to see that laymen from suse tried to tell me that they know better. If this is a technical list, then it could be a good idea to discuss technical issues only. As "cdrkit" has more than 100 well documented bugs, there is much to discuss. The users of the suse distribution are annoyed that suse ships a fork full of bugs instead of the original software. Has suse really no interest to satisfy their customers? What is the reason for being unfriendly to a very active OSS author? 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