Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Stephan Binner <stbinner@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 September 2008 23:48:49 Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

> > 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
> OK. But the point of the licence where this is discussed was the one at
> the centre of the discussion on the "bad press" I think.

I don't think so, please read the linked LWN story. It was about the *license 
of a development release* including things like "prohibits redistribution for 
compensation and use in a production environment".

> I don't buy the story of mirrors having problems, because they mirror
> exactly the same distributions that offer practically everything restricted.
>
> So we want the media easier to be redistributed (as if now someone
> doesn't do that already...they even sell it online) on one hand to reach

Some mirrors and merchants violating current licenses is no reason that should
make us stop to simplify our license. :-)

Bye,
   Steve
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