Re: [SLUG] SuSE 8.0

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 22:26:03 EDT


On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:55:08PM -0400, steve wrote:

>
> On Sunday 12 May 2002 20:00, you wrote:
> > Two questions, please?
> >
> > 1. When I acquire my copy of SuSE am I restricted to one
> > PC or may I load it on as many as I like?
> >
> > 2. I don't find it locally, nothing at Circuit City or Office Depot.
> >
> > Thanks! doc
>
> Funny, it's licensed like all other Linux distributions.
> There's no choice in the matter. Linux is GPL.
>
> All they can do is to offer a CD with 3rd part development which is not
> GPL'ed.

Umm, I can't speak to the specific license on SuSE, but I wouldn't be so
quick to assume it can be freely distributed. SuSE as a distro has much
more non-GPL software in it than others. Including their YaST and SaX
programs. The GPL and Open Source licensed software on SuSE _would_ be
freely distributable, I'm just not sure about the other.

Paul



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