On 28 March 2014 12:51, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > Sebastian Feld <sebastian.n.f...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to >> licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: > > Have you read this: > > https://www.debian.org/legal/patent > > in particular, point 3. > > Having read that, I would suggest that either: > > your concerns are based on a concrete risk to Debian, in which case > you should not be discussing them here if you have Debian's best > interests at heart, > > or they have no basis in legal fact (I'm guessing that you're not a > lawyer, as you didn't cite which jurisdiction you thought your > assertion might apply, or any other salient details) in which case > they don't really tell us anything. > > Either way, they don't belong here.
This is the wrong way to handle it. A lot of people want systemd in Debian and push for it very hard, but then appear to ignore the *LEGAL* risks and push any comments about it away as "trolling" or "contact someone else". Given ORACLEs very aggressive stance and intentional destruction of opensource communities like opensolaris.org it must be *CLEARLY* ruled out that there is *ANY* risk for Debian. The situation sounds a bit as both Novell/Suse and Redhat/Fedora are standing with the back to the wall and have no choice than to negotiate with ORACLE. Should Debian risk the same fate? ORACLE.COM is a dangerous opponent and is unlikely to play it fair if they smell money. Wendy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CA+j=erote9jfr3aek-qns6unbap8acdghkk6wf7axs+ppp6...@mail.gmail.com
