Hi, Am Sonntag, 23. November 2003 00:08 schrieb Ben Rosenberg:
* Hartmut Meyer (hartmut.meyer@web.de) [031122 14:58]:
Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 23:10 schrieb Alex Daniloff:
It can be installed on Red Hat, Debian and other distros with the same functionality. You can even charge your client a consulting fee for installing Linux and be legally out of YaST license bounds.
You're *well* off here.
Pure ignorance :-(
Umm. No he's not. You can charge a client a consulting feel to install software an pay no mind to the license that governs the software. As long as that client has purchased that software legally and has a license. You wouldn't have to pay SUSE another license fee because you installed it for someone else.
In fact if I were to go to Fry's and purchase a SUSE box then take it to a client site. I could charge them for installation of said software, reimbursement for picking up the software for them and for the boxed software itself
Yes.
as long as I didn't charge them more then the retail store charged me.
Maybe even that (if your client is willing you more than what he would have had to pay in the shop ...)
If I can do this Microsoft software and I have done this with their software and not get in trouble for it then I doubt SUSE would have grounds to stand on. Now if I ordered a large amount of SUSE boxes from SUSE and resold them to individuals at a profit that would be wrong. If I made copies and sold them at a profit with other software I produced then I could see that being shaky but just to charge a client a consulting fee to install software isn't / wouldn't be violating anything.
Maybe I misunderstood him. Of course, if you you sell the box to your client that's fine. You may make any extra margin you want with services or whatever. But if you buy a box for yourself and then install SUSE LINUX on your clients computer without selling him the box as well, then you're not covered by the YaST license. I understood that was was Alex is promoting. Greetings from Bremen hartmut