Re: [Sheflug] Re: is SuSE Yast violating the GPL?

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:55, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> It's okay to install from CD and copy the CDs.  No problem with that.
> In that sense it is "free". 

I would be careful what advice you give people, Richard:

http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/business/products/sld/license.html

That seems it indicate it's not that simple. I'm not completely aware of
how the SuSE product range works any more, but I believe that only this
software:

http://www.suse.de/uk/private/download/suse_linux/index.html

.. is copyable. However, you can't generate installation CDs from the
downloads apparently. Also, it's not exactly the same as the boxed
version, but it sounds like that is just a bit of proprietary software
being dumped.

Cheers,

Alex.


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