Derek Glidden wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 22:10, Aaron Steimle wrote:
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>>One note, last time I read it ( about 8.1 release ago) it clearly stated
>>you could install on all computer that were within the household and I
>>believed mentioned something to the nature of family members also. The
>>license now doesn't seem to mention that anymore. It is also not clear
>>what the restriction are in term of how many if many at you can install
>>on your personal computer. I not even sure if I am allowed to install it
>>on 2 of my personal machines.
>>
>>
>
>I can clarify; I got to hear a SuSE guy at Linuxworld explain their
>current license:
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> one license, one computer
>
>I don't necessarily like it, but it's their software...
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I think that that only pertains to the boxed edition because of
third party software that isn't GPL. There is nothing (that I have seen
anyway) that prevents anyone from performing an ftp install, but note
that there are no proprietary packages on the ftp sites, only GPL stuff.
Jeff
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