Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Adrian Schroeter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am atm at BrainShare and not up to date with my emails, but I saw this 
this thread in list archive.

We do have two independend issues here, first the Wiki copyright 
statement. Our legal department is a bit overloaded atm, but I am still in 
good hope that we can remove the Copyright statement rather soon.

Regarding the distribution license, all what it is good for is to avoid 
having multiple "SUSE Linux 10.0" isos out there which do contain complete 
different content. I think this is reasonable and helps us all, otherwise 
people speaking about a SUSE Linux which we do not know at all maybe.

Of course we _want_ to support forks of the distribution, all what one
need is to change the name like "Adrians SUSE Linux" or "Helgas Home 
Linux". Nothing on the medias is copyprotected, because only software with 
OSI licenses is on it.

I hope this helps.

bye
adrian


Adrian Schroeter
SuSE AG,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx