YAST and YAST2 are not licensed under the GPL, rather they have a particular
SuSE license and the source code is available. I could not find any data on
it in the documentation. Perhaps the license is in a directory on their
website. SAX and SAX2 are licensed under the GPL.
There is some choice on the matter: Gnu/Linux has a number of utilites and
programs that have other open source licenses such as the BSD license, the
Mozilla license, artistic license, etc.
Smitty
On Sunday 12 May 2002 22:26, you wrote:
> 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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