[Gllug] Fwd: [opensuse] Invitation to OpenSUSE developers

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 21:57:18 UTC 2006


On 11/24/06, Rich Walker <rw at shadowrobot.com> wrote:

> I call troll. Or Novell shareholder :->

Neither.

> > The "multiverse" component contains software that is "not free", which
> > means the licensing requirements of this software do not meet the Ubuntu
> > "main" Component Licence Policy.

1. I wasn't aware of that.
2. It's still endorsed by the Ubuntu project to a certain extent by
the very fact that it's available on their site to download. You won't
find an MP3 codec on the Fedora ftp site (or Debian? Do they still
have a non-free section?)

Tet
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