On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Carlos E. R.
Not only easy to read, but useful. It is useless to forbid redistribution, because we (ie, Joe User) will do it. What about a club giving away hundreds of copies of Linux on a festival or a school? Or a friend giving a copy to another friend? No way. Linux users perceive Linux as free, so they will not restrict themselves by any EULA a company like XYZ may impose on it. Except if the restriction is felt as reasonable (like not saying this is WYZ's distro, when it has a logo from XYZ).
This is not only academic, nor aimed only at "Joe User" -- if we don't have a EULA that easily allows redistribution, we have to make special cases for publishers of books and magazines, and other entities that *do* care about this license. The odds of Adobe or anyone like that suing me for downloading a copy and giving it to, say, a friend that works for Mozilla, is negligible. The odds of Adobe suing a publisher for distributing openSUSE with a magazine or book are also small, but not one that some publishers care to take. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org