Hi, Am Montag, 17. November 2003 23:04 schrieb Alex Daniloff:
Harmut, Could you please point me to the legal sources of your statements listed below. In the link you've provided there is nothing said that you can't use SuSE distribution as a back end for your commercial software. I don't believe that SUSE is paying to all the developers whose GPL applications you're binding with your distribution. Therefore, how in legal terms you can impose any limitations or restrictions on people who use SUSE distribution for whatever business purposes? Isn't it a contradiction to GPL?
Sorry, I have hardly any time right now. It's about YaST and the YaST license. Your're right about GPL licensed packages - you could freely distribute them, but if you want to distribute the whole SUSE distribution (or parts of it, but including YaST), you have to also take care of the YaST license. I don't have a link handy, but I assume if you sarch for "license" on our home page you should find it. If not: it will be on your installed system. Greetings from Bremen hartmut