On 8/16/22 18:44, Alberto Planas wrote:
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 10:40:20 AM CEST Simon Lees wrote:
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.
Is not a technicality. Is a basic freedom. A pillar one. Not some minor legal detail. You cannot restrict the usage. It is freedom 0[1]
EULAs are not for open source, are for closed source. They are the terms that allow the use without granting ownership.
openSUSE as a collective work has a license, but there is not much that can say besides "if you change it in a way that we do not like, is not openSUSE anymore".
My point here is that the openSUSE can and does put restrictions on the usage of the software it distributes and it has in the past and will in the future take legal action against cases where it is used outside those terms. No that doesn't prevent someone else from taking our source code and doing something else with it (provided they honor any trademark related issues). But that wasn't the point that either I or Richard were making here. -- 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