Has the human intellect dropped so significantly while I wasn't looking, or what? this is all really common sense. Copyright, means the Right to Copy. Which incidentally, does not mean you cannot make backup copies for yourself, you are not allowed to copy for the purpose of distributing. Weather that is for profit or not. This is covered by the SuSE YaST license, part 3. And in the case of Linux, it's GPL'd. Which means General Public License, often referred to as free software. However, the word free means: "Free as in speech, not as in beer". So, unless SuSE starts creating a per-workstation licensing for YaST, the rest is just common sense. On Sunday 23 November 2003 08:52, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 23. November 2003 00:14 schrieb Ben Rosenberg:
* Hartmut Meyer (hartmut.meyer@web.de) [031122 15:01]:
Hi again,
Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 23:10 schrieb Alex Daniloff:
Company opinion or "spirit of the terms" has to be legally outlined in the software license itself. If it hasn't been done properly, then it's just a private opinion without legal merits. All license ambiguities and uncertainties go against the licensor not the licensee. In case with YaST - there are limitations on its usage if and only if you are reselling SuSE distribution for profit. If you give it away for free, then you're not bound by these limitations.
So if I sell copies of the SUSE CD and charge only for the CDs themself, say $10 and claim that it's not for the software but just for my work and for the material, then you think that would be covered by the YaST license?
It's not.
Um. Unless SUSE changed their policy
Policy hasn't changed.
then it's always been ok to charge someone for the cost of the CD's that one uses to burn a copy to give it to them. If it costs you 0.50 cents per cd times 5 cd's then you can tell the person you've made a copy for that they should give you $2.50 because that's not selling for a profit.
Exactly ;-)
It's reimbursement for matirials. This subject has been discussed here 100's and 100's of times. It was discussed when I worked at SUSE in Oakland and what you've said above is sheer bullshit. :)
That's why I said $10 and not $2.50. Beacuse then it would be obvious that you're trying to earn money with it, which is exactly the point that the YaST license does not allow (unless you are selling the box to him - see my other mail).
Greetings from Bremen hartmut