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] You can limit the use of the trademark. "openSUSE" trademark cannot and should not be used in the limits that are enumerated. Douglas' point was valid. The use of software under a free license cannot be restricted, and doing it is an attack. And hubs like gitlab / github are a problem in this scenario, as much as they control the delivery channel of the software.
EULA
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". [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.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)