stephan beal wrote:
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 11:24, Per Jessen wrote:
and I am using Suse 10 as a platform for my service, which means that the OS doesn't belong to them or to me, because it is open source? If it belongs to anyone, it's probably Novell.
owl:~ # mount ... /home/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-DVD-i386.iso on /media/suse type iso9660 (ro,loop=/dev/loop0) cd /me owl:~ # cd /media/suse owl:/media/suse # less LICENSE.TXT
There's the answer. 3rd full paragraph says the original poster may NOT do what he's asking about:
------------ The Software is a collective work of Novell. You may make and use unlimited copies of the Software for Your distribution and use within Your Organization. You may make and distribute unlimited copies of the Software outside Your organization provided that: 1) You receive no consideration; and, 2) you do not bundle or combine the Software with another offering (e.g., software, hardware, or service). -------------
Points (1) and (2) both apply here.
The original poster can and should force his customer to pay for a boxed set of SuSE. Then deleiver his application on seperate media. He can then charge what ever he wants for his product and/or services. Mark