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Re: [opensuse] Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux?
  • From: Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:58:25 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601231753350.29141@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

> Monday, 23 January 2006 19:11 samaye, Christoph Thiel alekhiit:
>
> > > Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux?
> >
> > Programs that are licensed under an OSI
> > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) compliant license... and some other
> > open source licenses that aren't listed there. The The Artistic License
> > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php) would be OK of
> > course.
>
> Is there some confusion here? I asked what programs under what license with
> **not** be included in SUSE Linux. Did you mean to list the licences that are
> *allowed* or *not allowed*?

I should have articulated this more clearly: Programs with those licenses
are obviously _allowed_. Listing all disallowed licenses would be
impossible...


Regards
Christoph

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