On 8/17/22 00:52, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:10:20 +0930, Simon Lees wrote:
"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.
Sure you *can* technically do this but given its currently against our elua if someone within the project found out you were doing this they would be obliged to contact Legal who would be obliged to take out a court order to prevent you from continuing to do such.
The quoted section of the agreement talks about distribution and trademark use, not use of the software.
There's nothing in that quoted section (nor that I can find in the trademark guidelines section that's linked) that places any sort of restrictions on how the *software* is used - just the openSUSE trademarks.
The section from Richard's first email also states that the *software* is covered under the terms of US Export Control, everyone agrees to these terms when running the installer. If you were found to not be agreeing to such terms then your right to use the software would be revoked. In all likelyness the reason we have such terms is because in the past if we weren't seeming to do everything we could as a project to comply with US Export Control, and someone was to be found to be using openSUSE software in a way that was prohibited under export control law then the US government could equally apply similar prevention's on people interacting with openSUSE. As I said in a different email how export control applies to open source projects has now changed so this is now much less of a risk. But it is an example of us putting limits on the use of our software beyond what is covered by the other various licenses. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B