On Friday 23 May 2003 20:27, Jerry A! wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:17:03PM -0500, David Krider wrote: : On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 09:18, Anthony J Moulen wrote: : > It is best to know what your redistribution rights are for the : > materials on the CD. The main issue seems to be YaST itself. Not : > GPL'ed and with a somewhat restrictive license. I don't remember what : > it is, and currently I am not running SuSE so I can't check. : : Wow. I had no clue. This is certainly unexpected. I mean, yeah, I've : become persuaded that Yast is pretty cool, but I never thought that it : wouldn't be GPL. I skimmed the license docs on it, just to confirm that, : and I'm still in shock. : : Thanks for the heads up,
And don't forget to add Sun-JDK/JRE and RealPlayer to the list. All of these programs have non-redistribution clauses. That's also why they're not available on the ftp install.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!
SuSE is a company that has given much to the OSS community (ReiserFS is one example), and I understand very well that SuSE, of course, needs to make money. But after reading /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2/COPYRIGHT.english, I was surprised as well how draconian it sounded. Taken into consideration how central yast is (if one thinks SuSEconfig is part of yast), I'm not all that happy. Cheers Sigfred