Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Potential problem with Bitttorrent DHT

2009-04-01 Thread Luis Villa
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

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Potential problem with Bitttorrent DHT

2009-04-01 Thread Tom "spot" Callaway
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

[Fedora-legal-list] Potential problem with Bitttorrent DHT

2009-04-01 Thread David Nielsen
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 parti