GPL is about free software, free as in free speech, not as in free beer. I bought GNU Emacs on a tape cartridge for $150 in the late 80's directly from the Free Software Foundation. RMS's free software will cost you money if you buy direct. SuSE's Linux distribution is covered by a variety of licenses. Obviously the kernel is GPL. Some of it is evaluation/demo versions of commercial packages with no source. There is also Artistic License stuff, etc. If you want only GPL, try the Debian distribution. They are the closest. Jeffrey Quoting FlavusSnow@aol.com <FlavusSnow@aol.com>:
As I understand it, most distributions of Linux are offered free. SuSE offers an evaluation version which only runs off of a CD and is extremely slow. Is there any way for me to download a non-evaluation version of SuSE from their FTP, or must I purchase the distribution? If purchasing is the only way of getting a non-evaluation copy of SuSE's distribution, is this in accordance with the GNU public license?
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