On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 10:12:32 AM CEST Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 08:00 +0000, doug demaio wrote:
People who write open-source software have no say over how it is used. There are many positive ways Tornado Cash was used, which you can hear about, but I'll just share one.
The license of the openSUSE Project says otherwise
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License
The following clauses in the license used by all of our distributions actively restrict how openSUSE is used:
"This agreement permits you to distribute unmodified or modified copies of openSUSE Leap 15.4 using the “openSUSE” trademark on the condition that you follow The openSUSE Project’s trademark guidelines located at http://en.opensuse.org/Legal. You must abide by these trademark guidelines when distributing openSUSE Leap 15.4, regardless of whether openSUSE Leap 15.4 has been modified."
No, it does not control how to use the distribution but the trademark. I can download openSUSE Leap 15.4, install it into my new nuke and control it. Maybe I cannot say "Nuke powered by *openSUSE* Leap 15.4", as I would be using the trademark. But I definitively can run the software at my will. In other case this will be in contradiction with some (all?) the licenses that compose the distribution, that are explicit in granting the freedom of running the software. For example, in the GPL Faq[1] """ Can I use GPLed software on a device that will stop operating if customers do not continue paying a subscription fee? (#SubscriptionFee) No. In this scenario, the requirement to keep paying a fee limits the user's ability to run the program. This is an additional requirement on top of the GPL, and the license prohibits it. """ [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstrasse 146 90461 Nuremberg Germany Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)