Hello, On Feb 23 12:05 Per Jessen wrote (shortened):
maxpaz wrote:
I'm a sysadmin inside a private organisation and I'm just wondering if it is possible with only one suse 10 retail (amazing distro i can setup all the printers, scanner, modem .... with one click ) box , to install and deploy on several pc (me/98/xp to suse migrations) inside the company without legal trouble.
I am no lawyer but as far as I know it is allowed, but see below.
The boxed version is just a nicely packaged copy of what is available for download.
As far as I know this is not true. The boxed version may contain proprietary software which is not available for free download or which has a license with whatever special restrictions. The boxed version does contain full or partialy proprietary software. For example the Adobe Reader (package acroread) or the Epson Avasys Image Scan scanner driver software (package iscan). The license of this two software packages allow to be installed as many times as you like. But I cannot guarantee that the licenses of any software which is included in the boxed version allows this because I don't know all those licenses and I am no lawyer. To display the license tags for all installed RPMs, you can use for example: for p in $( rpm -qa ) do echo -n "$p: " rpm -qi $p | grep -o 'License:.*$' done In particular check the RPMs with "Commercial" or "Other License" or "see package" in the license tag. Isn't there a nice dialog at the beginning of the installation regarding free versus proprietary licenses so that you can reject any non-free software to be installed? Kind Regards, Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/