Jürgen Weigert of Novell gave a talk at FOSDEM 2009 in which he discussed legal aspects of distribution development based on his experience in the OpenSUSE project: "Every community distributions have to deal with legal issues. The talk shows what kind of pitfalls we have in our daily distribution work and how to solve them."
Download: http://tube.opensuse.org/fosdem09/fosdem09_day1_09-legal.ogg (235 MB)
Slides: http:/files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/3/33/Legal_Aspects_of_Distribution_Development_v3.pdf