Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

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Your are quite correct SLED is a proprietary produce of Novell. The
RPM's are not loading on a server as you purchase the boxed set and
licences etc
Scott :-)

steve reilly wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:59, John Andersen wrote:
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>> On Saturday 05 May 2007, Ra�l Moratalla wrote:
>>     
>>> El Domingo, 6 de Mayo de 2007 02:19, Ra�l Moratalla escribi�:
>>>       
>>>> 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
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> 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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