Andreas Girardet schrieb:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 5:38 am, in message
<200508241938.32949.ben.henderson@planet.nl>, ben.henderson@planet.nl wrote:
Op woensdag 24 augustus 2005 02:33, schreef Philipp Thomas:
Kenneth Aar
[22 Aug 2005 14:42:31 +0200]:
I am stationed in Norway, we have very liberal laws. So I could
host the
yast/apt source if necesary.
There already is packman.links2linux.org which you can use both as
an
installation source for YaST or as an apt4rom repository.
Philipp
Thats correct, but there is no possabillity to find software for
OpenSuSe.
I tried to use lins2linux as an installation sourge for Opensuse and
that
failed offcourse its to soon yet. With SuSE9.3 there is no problem.
There is still a problem with the software like M- player and
Kaffeine on
legal ways and patents for OpenSuSE and specially for Mplayer. So we need a host i think. Kenneth Aar is willing but how can we make it work without problems
with
rights en patents?????
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We cannot legally redistribute the binaries or even advertise it on opensuse.org as this is illegal in Germany. In other countries it is not, but I guess opensuse.org is in Germany and certainly gwdg is in .de.
The only way seems to compile it in a country that does not prosecute for such acts and host it in Norway and spread the word via word of mouth. Any other suggestions?
If Windows is allowed to produce such players, how could we as SUSE do that? There surely must be a way to pay whoever owns the patents some $$ and include such a player at least in the boxed set version of SUSE? I think that such a legal player is desperately needed in SUSE. I would be happy to pay a premium for it.
Andreas
AFAIK SUSE does only allow three kinds of software to its distro: 1) real OSS 2) some important free proggies, eg Acrobat Reader 3) software for which SUSE is paid for, so called test versions of commercial products. Such a player does not meet one of the three conditions. :-(( Detlef