On Saturday 24 May 2003 01:30, Marcel Broekman wrote:
I don't understand why this subject always ends up with people shouting at SuSE about YaST not being GPL'd. It seems it's not enough one can copy the CD's a thousand times and give them away for free. You can even get the source code of YaST and hack it every which way you can. You just can't sell it and make money out of SuSE's work, that's all there is to it.
just my 2 cents. Marcel
But the licence is written in legaleze, and thus not that easy to understand, to put it mildly. On the other hand, I do buy DVD/CD sets from SuSE as well as from vendors of other operating systems that I try out. The license does not give a right to copy SuSE CD's, even for private/non profit use, as far as I can understand, unless I get a written permission. Note that SuSEconfig is pretty special to just SuSE, and as far as I can understand is part of yast. Check out the mails in the thread "What's keeps changing my inet.d sequence" in Suse security list for the confuscion SuSEconfig may give. I've got similar problems now and then with SuSEconfig (SuSEfirewall2 really)(as well as other), enough to dump SuSE for my home e-mail server. My workstation is still SuSE, though. Cheers Sigfred.