Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 14.02.2006, 01:25 +0100 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
> > It seems that you did not understand the Debian rules.
>
> Well, I believe I understand them quite well. OTOH, I don't consider
> this problem to be about my understanding, so let's drop this.
It sounds as if you definitely don't understand the legal background.
> > If Debian would really require people to be allowed to sue the
> > Author of free software at any place on the earth, Debian would
> > be anti-social.
>
> Well, you want a software, where every user on this planet can be forced
> to travel around the globe for a lawsuit. Doesn't sound much better.
This aplies _only_ to users who like to sue _me_, so this only aplies to
_BAD_ users.
> Given the vast number of packages in Debian and assuming every package
> had a license like that, every Debian user would have to know the
> jurisdictions of almost every country in the world -- just to be able to
> decide wether installing this package is putting him at risk or not.
>
> And stuff like this just shouldn't be in main.
The CDDL is an aproved OSS compliant license.
Please don't try to create FUD on the CDDL.
Jörg
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