Gerald Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are > NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far they can > get away with doing things that an American based company cannot. > > Red Hat has had their lawyers look into this issue with regards to the > Fedora Project and it is quite clear that not only can Red Hat and/or > Fedora not include this questionable software in their distributions > but even linking to it could cause legal problems in the US. > > This would also apply to Sun given that they are also an American > company.
This is why it is important to be able to have net-install and packet mirrors for Solaris in Europe provided buy people other that Sun. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org