Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:17:17PM -0400, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
> http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/LICENSE.TXT
> 
> You may make and distribute outside Your Organization an unlimited
> number of copies of the Software.
> 
> "You may modify the Software, and distribute outside Your Organization
> an unlimited number of copies of the modified Software, provided that:
> a) You remove all Novell trademarks and logos from the Software and do
> not use any Novell trademarks or logos in distributing the modified
> Software (Novell trademarks and logos include, but are not limited to,
> “Novell,” “SUSE,” and the SUSE gecko drawing.); OR,"
> 
> Basically is the same answer, _you need to remove all Novell trademarks_

Is this really the same?  Or does one have to remove that stuff only when he
does _modify_ the software?  I am not a lawyer but I guess that if I have to
remove it even when I don't modify anything then every mirror admin is
performing illegal action.

Robert

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Robert Schiele
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