[Mageia-discuss] OpenOpera?

Sun Feb 20 13:41:54 CET 2011

On 20/02/11 11:30, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:08:51 +0100, Kristoffer Grundström wrote:
+>> 2011-02-20 10:50, Michael Scherer skrev:
+>>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:37:55 +0100, Kristoffer Grundström wrote:
+>>>> sön 2011-02-20 klockan 10:28 +0100 skrev Michael Scherer:
+>>>>> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:17:37 +0100, Kristoffer Grundström wrote:
+>>>>> > Is it possible that we could build an opensource-version of Opera
+>>>>> > from
+>>>>> > the tarballs that they release & put it in Tainted-repo?
+>>>>>
+>>>>> What is the license of the source code ?
+>>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> LGPL-2 if I'm not misstaken.
+>>>
+>>> Can you check more ?
+>>>
+>>> And where is the code, and what does it do ?
+>> ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1101/
+>
+> That's not source code.
+>
+>> about:opera in opera should show you what you can do with it.
+>>
+>> It's already in Mandriva, but the current version isn't opensource AFAIK.
+>> I may be wrong......
+>
+> So if this is not opensource, then it cannot go to tainted.
+>
+> And if this is not opensource, we cannot build a opensource version out
+> of nowhere...
+
+Just for reference the Opera end-user licence:
+
+http://www.opera.com/eula/browser-linux/
+
+Which confirms Michael's conclusion. It is proprietary software, with a 
+limited re-distribution right granted to linux distro's (Section 2). 
+That is why Mandriva puts it in non-free.
+
+Jim
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