On Friday 2018-02-23 08:27, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 22.02.2018 19:00, Liam Proven wrote:
SLE, the enterprise distro. Slow release cycle, stable, supported, costs money -- traditional software licensing model
NO. NO. NO.
Most of the software in SLE is still GPL. AIUI (I'm not a lawyer), it is basically impossible for SUSE to sell a GPL license to anyone.
If the GPL forbade selling, the license would not be libre and go counter to its own spirit. So that's not it.
What SUSE sells is service: subscriptions. Access to updated versions. Technical support. Whatever. But not a license.
Remember that there is a End-User License Agreement when doing the initial install with yast2.
I hate it that I have to explain this at work at least twice a day, but having to explain it to FOSS people really hurts.
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