Hi, On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Stephan Binner wrote:
On Friday 26 September 2008 22:00:39 Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
the major complaint is related to the point of the EULA concerning openSUSE redistribution due to the presence of Novell brands.
The Novell brands don't prevent redistribution. They only don't allow you to change the product to something totally different and still call it openSUSE.
key point of openSUSE: offering also proprietary software ready to go on DVD
I don't see this key point. I doubt someone is choosing openSUSE because of that - there are (community) distribution out there who include much more proprietary and other problematic stuff like encrypted DVD, all codecs, ...
If it is really necessary, a warning pop-up and a checkbox during the installation process to deselect automatically all the non-OSS software
This thread is IMO about being allowed to redistribute the media (complete DVD with all software), not about EULA of single applications you have to agree when installing/using (like [until recently] when starting Mozilla Firefox).
I would count it as a big advantage if we could sort things in a manner that the EULA could explicite state: It is allowed to copy these media and give them to friends, as long as you do it for no fee regarding the contents. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)