OpenSUSE Leap is a
community distribution built on top of source packages from SUSE Linux
Enterprise (SLE). Recently, Gerald Pfeifer, chair of the openSUSE board, posted an announcement describing a proposal
from SUSE to unify some packages between SLE and
openSUSE Leap. Here we analyze the proposal and the community’s
reaction to it.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Bringing openSUSE Leap and SLE closer