Gerald Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are
> NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far they can
> get away with doing things that an American based company cannot.
>
> Red Hat has had their lawyers look into this issue with regards to the
> Fedora Project and it is quite clear that not only can Red Hat and/or
> Fedora not include this questionable software in their distributions
> but even linking to it could cause legal problems in the US.
>
> This would also apply to Sun given that they are also an American
> company.
This is why it is important to be able to have net-install and
packet mirrors for Solaris in Europe provided buy people other that Sun.
Jörg
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