Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[steve reilly <sfreilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:59, John Andersen wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007, Raúl Moratalla wrote:
> > El Domingo, 6 de Mayo de 2007 02:19, Raúl Moratalla escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there any way to get the source rpms for SLED 10? Should Novell
> > > provide them?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Raul
> >
> > I searched more information and seems that they are available at the SLED
> > SDK DVD. But why don't provide them easily from a ftp server?
>
> I dono, but perhaps the source RPMs become available once you buy SLED.
>
> I'm not sure they that are obligated to give you source if you are not
> a customer.
>
> This is backwards of the old Suse, where getting source was easy
> but getting an ISO image was virtually impossible.
>
> Opensuse is a different thing of course.
>
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> _____________________________________
> John Andersen


as far as I know, SLED is not gpl, and proprietary to novell therefore the 
source isnt provided.  Dont quote me on this though.  I remember years ago  
trying to sell off old box sets of suse I had purchased from novell on ebay 
and had my seller status revoked and received nasty emails from novell. 

 Like you said opensuse the source is freely available, and I believe is re 
distributable but would have to remove any reference to novell in the whole 
distro.  kind of like what centos does with redhat linux.  then again, im not 
a lawyer lol.


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