On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:09:51PM +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote:
As far as I know, everything ever produced is copyrighted, whether it says so or not. Unless it explicitly relinquishes copyright (public domain) it will always be copyrighted. You know that the GPL is a copyright based license, right?
GPL does not limit distribution but positively encourages it.
That is not what he is saying. He says that GPL is a form of copyright. In a way it is even a stricter form of copyright then standard copyright.
It seems Suse and Open suse are copyright Novell so technically everthing is claimed by Novell.
The majority of programs on this CD falls under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This license can be found in the file "COPYING". That is what I read. You read something else and choose to leave. I wish you all the best with any other dirstibution. Don't forget to unsubscribe. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html