Re: [SLUG] Anyone interested in a copy of Suse 9.1 Personal edition??

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 19:56:38 EDT


steve szmidt wrote:
> For GPL s/w? YaST was made GPL, which was non GPL. The rest is Linux.

Eben King wrote:
> Does GPL imply free-as-in-beer?
> SuSE doesn't offer YaST without payment TTBOMK.

YaST is GPL. However, you have no license to redistribute SuSE's
trademarked materials. It's beyond just the support issue of doing
so. If you allow anyone to redistribute your trademark without a
license, people can claim you have released the trademark into the
public domain.

So far, Red Hat is the only company who's products have been freely
redistributed enough for this to come to a legal matter, where entities
challenged the USPTO to begin looking at Red Hat's trademark as such.

Hence the reason for the name change from Red Hat Linux. Red Hat was
already trying to figure out how it could please its own maintainers,
and the whole shabang occurred at the same time.

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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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