"Timothy R. Butler"
Whatever the reason, it's sad SuSE promotes their distro under the banner of open source, but are too control hungry with YaST to use the power of open source on their own product.
The only thing you can't do is sell it for money without approval from SuSE, is that too restricting? And I bet you that even if it was GPL, no one would really work on it, given that there would be no support from SuSE. Are *you* going to do the changes necessary to make YaST1 work with 8.0 (rc.config -> /etc/sysconfig, no START_ variables, changed package descriptions etc.) or any following version? Guess where Mozilla or OO would be if the original developers had stopped working on it the moment it was made open source? Of those yelling I haven't seen one single person saying 'I'd like to work on it but only if it was under GPL'. Thus I get the impression that people like you think that only the license needs to be changed to make a YaST1 appear that's adapted to 8.0. Philipp