Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic <at> gmail.com> writes: > > You didn't understand me or you don't have all the info... look at > > older posts on this subject. Somebody posted on mailinglist saying > > that there was a court decision in US that would make this > > "contributary infringement" go away. That is what I'm saying to check > > with Fedora Legal because this was couple months ago. > The way Novell has interpreted this decision can be seen in this > screenshot: http://de.opensuse.org/Bild:YaSTCommunityRepositories.png > Under "Community Repositories", they now have this list of third-party > repositories, which also includes ones which ship patent-encumbered > software. SUSE is a /german/ company (wholly owned by Novell, but still), they have no operations in the US (that much I gleaned from some SCOX nonsense against them that was commented on Groklaw), so they don't have to put up with idiotic US laws. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
