Re: Beware the ORACLE.COM risk

2014-03-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Wendy Lin: > 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. Wrong. You cannot rule out ANY risk, and the current legal landscape is not compatible with CLEA

Beware the ORACLE.COM risk

2014-03-29 Thread Wendy Lin
On 28 March 2014 12:51, Philip Hands wrote: > Sebastian Feld 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. >