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

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 14:11:58 EDT


On Saturday 25 September 2004 02:23 pm, Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Friday 24 September 2004 09:16 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, chris lee wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:30:31 -0700, Paddy <paddy@ij.net> wrote:
> > > > > Anyway, if someone is interest in this copy I will make you an
> > > > > offer you can't refuse.
> > > >
> > > > i could throw it up on bittorrent and everybody who wants could get a
> > > > copy
> > >
> > > I'm sure SuSE has a school/flock/herd of attack lawyers whose fingers
> > > are just itching to write a "cease and desist" letter.
> >
> > For GPL s/w? YaST was made GPL, which was non GPL. The rest is Linux.
>
> Does GPL imply free-as-in-beer? SuSE doesn't offer YaST without payment
> TTBOMK.

Yes, they do now. Novell made it GPL in March.

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Steve Szmidt

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