On Wednesday 05 Aug 2009 21:01:40 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Robert Kaiser
wrote: 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
WHY ? do people not stop fannying around with all this legal BS and set about getting something working instead of S**T slinging grow up all of you I have not read this entire thread but have read enough to see whats doing and this boils down to a mud slinging contest . As i said in a previous thread all this legal BS has no place here what is needed here is action to ensure that OpenSUSE is of good reliable quality and not the crap that is around now this includes the CD/DVD tools whats the good of having the latest releaseup for down load when the system you are trying to use to burn it onto DVD cant do it . This is about PAR for present standards wakey wakey people .. Pete ,, -- Still here .