Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Jordi Massaguer i Pla <jordi.massaguer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 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.
> 

Actually, we are modifying the distro, but not the openoffice package
itself. So, I understand we should remove logos from the installation
process, but, should be remove it from OpenOffice? If so, what about
SuSEWatcher and YaST?

thanks,

jordi



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