On 2008-01-28T17:22:39, peter
That's my point. Those updates, maybe not all, are GPl. AFAIK there is no way Novell can forbid to share those updates and AFAIK Novell has also even to provide the source code if at least demanded. The only thing Novell might do is to terminate the subscription under some legally suited pretext.
The code is GPL (or whatever the license happens to be); the signatures, patchinfos etc are not. You'd be allowed to redistribute re-compiled binaries of course. You could create that, just like CentOS, but it would be "unsupported" and "uncertified" by the big ISVs like SAP and Oracle etc. So I wonder what advantage you'd get from that; afterall, the support and certification agreements are a key asset of chosing an Enterprise distro. Regards, Lars -- Teamlead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org