Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with
On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >> I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to be
> >> true or at least do not consider it a problem, and this is enough for
> >> me to ignore the opinion of the debian-legal@ armchair lawyers.
> >
> >Could they have signed license agreements that we (not being
> >executives of RHAT and Novell) don't know about?
>
> While it may be possible in theory, it's also very hard to believe.
If there are any signed license agreements, then they will probably drop some
notes in the {src}.rpm packages themselves they distribute to give their
users a clue, since these users are the most interested end to be aware of
that legal situation.
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