[Debian-uk] Re: Expo aftermath

[Roger Leigh]

Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:

> At Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:37:51 +0100,
> David Pashley wrote:
> 
> > > I have a digital photo from the event, if that would help things (he
> > > had a beard and glasses, though that might not be so uncommon, since
> > > it applies equally to me and many others ;-)
> > >
> > I think you are talking about roger whitiker(sp?), who is some top SuSE guy in 
> > the UK. The guy on the panel was not Roger. Roger was on the IBM/SuSE/foo 
> > stand though
> 
> Ah, well spotted.
> 
> Yeah, Roger knows what he's on about.
> 
> He actually knows enough about the YaST license situation to know that
> the SuSE position is flawed and still be able to argue in favour of
> it.  I get the impression that he does it as an intellectual exercise.

In what way is it flawed?

I can't see that there's much wrong from a licensing standpoint, since
aggregation of free with non-free software is allowed, and there's
nothing illegal with their method of distribution.  Or is the flaw
more subtle than this?

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