-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 2008-09-29 at 11:16 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Carlos E. R.
wrote: Not only easy to read, but useful. It is useless to forbid redistribution, because we (ie, Joe User) will do it. What about a club giving away hundreds of copies of Linux on a festival or a school? Or a friend giving a copy to another friend? No way. Linux users perceive Linux as free, so they will not restrict themselves by any EULA a company like XYZ may impose on it. Except if the restriction is felt as reasonable (like not saying this is WYZ's distro, when it has a logo from XYZ).
This is not only academic, nor aimed only at "Joe User" -- if we don't have a EULA that easily allows redistribution, we have to make special cases for publishers of books and magazines, and other entities that *do* care about this license.
The odds of Adobe or anyone like that suing me for downloading a copy and giving it to, say, a friend that works for Mozilla, is negligible. The odds of Adobe suing a publisher for distributing openSUSE with a magazine or book are also small, but not one that some publishers care to take.
Ok, ok. Maybe in the USA. Dunno. I believe an English Eula is not enforceable here. IANAL, etc. The question remains unanswered: what is the correct procedure to use the openSUSE DVD, as it is currently in the servers? It seems that it is not legal for Joe User (risk negligible) to burn the DVD from the ISO image to a friend. How then should we, er... expand Linux usage if we can not give copies to friends? Or in magazines? I don't understand. Has this been discovered now? Yes, yes, things will be changed for the future. But now? Am I committing crimes every time I make a copy for a friend? Perhaps I should tell them to use... no, no, I'm not that bad guy >:-p Absurd! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjhG6UACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XfQACeKSz0O1ExmIvheOttv0XKgGUb hCAAniQ9eS5BYy9MxpOVdx8xuu2KI9Rt =Qcgl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org