On Friday 28 March 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Freitag 28 März 2008 schrieb Volker Kuhlmann:
Right at the start of the installation one is presented with a long piece of legalese, called the "Novell Pre-Release Software License Agreement", on the CD as EULA.txt.
-snip-
As the "legal department" is pretty quick when it comes to what software can be included in openSUSE, can't they use their collective brains to come up with something that is fair, appropriate, or at least not in danger of attracting legal proceedings?
openSUSE is not under the GPL. It may be made out of GPL software, but still Novell holds all rights on the assembly of the product.
And as we had the case before where german magazines put Alpha0 on a cover mount and say "OpenSUSE 11 is ready" - there is no other chance to protect the openSUSE distribution than by its EULA. And remember: this is the Pre-Release EULA. And just to stregthen this, the EULA of the Goldmaster version doesn't contain such wording. Especially with the 1 CD version you may distribute it in any way.
Michael
Greetings, Stephan
-- Michael Löffler, Product Management Email: michl@suse.de Phone: +49 911 74053-376 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org