As is pointed out by upstream for Monsoon, Novell have disallowed DHT implementation from the openSUSE repos based on a legal risk as assessed by openSUSE Legal. The precise nature of the problem is unclear from the initial mail but Alan McGovern says he will provide information to interested parties, as such I would like some input from Fedora Legal if the problem applies to Fedora as well.
Relevant information https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492297 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00048.html
Regards, David Nielsen
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On 03/30/2009 07:37 AM, David Nielsen wrote:
As is pointed out by upstream for Monsoon, Novell have disallowed DHT implementation from the openSUSE repos based on a legal risk as assessed by openSUSE Legal. The precise nature of the problem is unclear from the initial mail but Alan McGovern says he will provide information to interested parties, as such I would like some input from Fedora Legal if the problem applies to Fedora as well.
Relevant information https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492297 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00048.html
Regards, David Nielsen
David,
I've reached out to my counterpart on the openSUSE side, but I have not yet heard anything in response. Without more information as to the problem, I don't think we can make an intelligent decision here. If Alan is willing to send information to me, we will certainly review the situation.
Thanks,
~tom
Note that, historically, suse has prohibited 'real' p2p in their distro on very, very specious legal grounds. (Basically fear that it is per se illegal even though this isn't true in the US, much less elsewhere.) I assume (but have no specific information) that this is just a variant of that.
Luis
2009/3/30 David Nielsen gnomeuser@gmail.com:
As is pointed out by upstream for Monsoon, Novell have disallowed DHT implementation from the openSUSE repos based on a legal risk as assessed by openSUSE Legal. The precise nature of the problem is unclear from the initial mail but Alan McGovern says he will provide information to interested parties, as such I would like some input from Fedora Legal if the problem applies to Fedora as well.
Relevant information https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492297 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00048.html
Regards, David Nielsen
(I am not on the list so please CC me)
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