On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday 2008-09-29 at 11:16 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Carlos E. R.
wrote: Not only easy to read, but useful. It is useless to forbid redistribution, because we (ie, Joe User) will do it. What about a club giving away hundreds of copies of Linux on a festival or a school? Or a friend giving a copy to another friend? No way. Linux users perceive Linux as free, so they will not restrict themselves by any EULA a company like XYZ may impose on it. Except if the restriction is felt as reasonable (like not saying this is WYZ's distro, when it has a logo from XYZ). ... The odds of Adobe or anyone like that suing me for downloading a copy and giving it to, say, a friend that works for Mozilla, is negligible. The odds of Adobe suing a publisher for distributing openSUSE with a magazine or book are also small, but not one that some publishers care to take.
Ok, ok. Maybe in the USA. Dunno. I believe an English Eula is not enforceable here. IANAL, etc.
The question remains unanswered: what is the correct procedure to use the openSUSE DVD, as it is currently in the servers?
It seems that it is not legal for Joe User (risk negligible) to burn the DVD from the ISO image to a friend. How then should we, er... expand Linux usage if we can not give copies to friends? Or in magazines? I don't understand.
Has this been discovered now?
Yes, yes, things will be changed for the future. But now? Am I committing crimes every time I make a copy for a friend? Perhaps I should tell them to use... no, no, I'm not that bad guy >:-p
Absurd!
The way I have been doing it with friends is have them bring the DVD, sit
at my computer and burn it themselves. I feel it is the same as them
sitting in the cafe to download it. So I guess I am possibly a criminal
as well.
Saddly, I did make over 30 copies of 10.3 for a training on moving from
Unix to Linux. I had requested the copies but things fell through the
cracks and I was left with making them. But the Novell/SUSE team has been
really good at getting copies for large events to provide to these people.
I have to really thank them for providing the CD/DVD's for these sessions.
I have only had the one time where I had to make them myself over the many
years. So I have to give big codos to them for making Linux available to
people to use and learn it. I really like the current efforts to make
things simpiler to do this.
Thanks,
--
Boyd Gerber