Hi, On Friday 28 March 2008, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sat 29 Mar 2008 01:23:12 NZDT +1300, Stephan Kulow wrote:
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.
Ok. I still find it off-putting. Compare with the license of eg Codeweavers, who also spare a thought about the rights of their customers. And it's not thought very far - my spare time doesn't extend to obtaining written permission before giving copies to other testers, and sorry for not writing good bug reports but Novell doesn't allow me to disassemble the assembly to see where the problem might be.
And as we had the case before where german magazines put Alpha0 on a cover mount and say "OpenSUSE 11 is ready"
Staggering stupidity. Some journos are working hard to keep up their industry's image. Or was this a tactic of the competition to disrepute open source?
- there is no other chance to protect the openSUSE distribution than by its EULA.
I beg to differ, but rather keep bugzilla busy about a3 than argue this point.
And remember: this is the Pre-Release EULA.
This has no relevance to me I'm afraid.
Guess what all the mirrors would have to do if they would take that brain-dead licence for serious... Fortunately, they didn't. And they don't need to ask for permission as I in the name of Novell I allow all mirrors to distribute our openSUSE pre-release software incl. Factory.
Same time we are in touch with our legal department on how to allign the EULA. But I have to admit that such tasks are not done overnight. Best Michael
Hopefully some brained person at SUSE/Novell is already on the way to clear this situation, or almost all the mirrors have to take some big delete action. Me too - i would never ask for permission in this case, but go the safe way.
Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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