[Sorry for coming late to this thread, I just noticed it through the archive] To recap: - The GPL states: --------------------------- 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, ---------------------------- The boxed version comes without sources, so 3a doesn't doesn't apply and 3b must be followed. But the written offer is nowhere in the box, just a pointer to it on the web (and this pointer is in places where people normally don't look (bottom of the box, somewhere on some CD)). To conform with the GPL, at least the text "If you don't have Internet access or are unable to burn DVDs, we will send you the source code on a DVD. We need to charge a $15 or €15 fee for creation, handling and postage. To request a DVD of the source code, send an e-mail to sourcedvd@suse.de." from http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/source_code.html or words to that effect _must_ be somewhere _in_ the box and should be on every media. This is currently made worse since yast can't install sources automatically (bug 175593). I strongly suggest to put the written offer in the root of every media and in prominent place in the manual. Best Martin PS: I suppose this also applies to SLE[SD] 10, but I haven't access to these.