[Mageia-discuss] OpenOpera?

[James Kerr]

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