Hi, Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 07:22 schrieb Alex Daniloff:
Carefully studying YaST license: http://www.suse.de/us/private/support/licenses/yast.html with my lawyer, we came to the following conclusions: This license doesn't contain any limitation to re-distribute SUSE Linux distribution free of charge. It's perfectly legal to install SUSE Linux on any of my clients' computers free of charge as a back bone OS, and then sell them any commercial software which has no reliance on YaST installation and configuration tool. It is the same if you buy commercial Vmware package and install it on your computer as a stand alone application. Would you be able to attach YaST license to Vmware then? Therefore, most of restrictions you've listed in your previous post have no legal merits.
Pragraphs 2b and 3 are the relevant parts for this question - I believe. However, I suggest you contact our legal department, because clearly, your and your lawyers view on this contradict our own. Greetings from Bremen hartmut