Ian Goodyer wrote:
It is an interesting thread. I have a friend who wants a copy of my six suse pro v7 CDs so that he can install it. He doesn't really care too much about the installation support or the printed manuals. Can I legally copy it for him? I was assuming that I could as I always thought that the price you paid for the distributions was for manuals+media+support+distribution costs+donation to the FSF and that the software per se was free. Am I correct?
Ummm... possibly. The reason for this is that they do include some 'commercial' software, like the VMWare eval, Corel Wordperfect, etc. This is where the waters get a bit muddier. I'm not sure if this is the case for 7.0, but I think there were plans to put all of the 'commercial' software on their own CD, i.e. a commercial CD, that if you were copying the set, you would supposedly have to miss out that CD. I'm not sure if this is actually the case, since my only installation of SuSE 7.0 was on an old headless server, and hence all the required software was on the first CD. It would be nice if someone from SuSE would clarify this once and for all though. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq