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| 2024-12-19 |
openSUSE removes security features and donations for the Bottle package |
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In an unusual move, an openSUSE package maintainer has disabled security measures in the distribution's Bottles package and, seemingly in a move intended to insult the Bottle developers, removed the Donate button from the Bottles application. Some people have pointed out that removing the sandbox requirement of Bottles makes it easier for openSUSE to package and distribute Bottles to users who do not mind running the package in an unsupported environment. However, openSUSE has also removed the warning against running Bottles unsandboxed, leaving the distribution's users at increased risk.
The move is not only raising eyebrows over the security implications and the apparent slap in the face to the Bottles team as openSUSE cuts off an avenue of donations to the upstream project, but there are also legal considerations in play. It is the nature of open source that anyone can fork or patch and then redistribute code from upstream sources - this is explicitly allowed by most open source licenses. However, downstream packagers are not allowed to redistribute their own, modified copy of software while keeping the name and trademark of the upstream project in place. This is why clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux cannot use the Red Hat logo and why Debian's highly patched web browser had to be called Ice Weasel instead of Firefox.
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