On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:55:11AM +0100, Jordi Massaguer Pla wrote:
El dg 13 de 01 del 2008 a les 12:36 -0500, en/na steve va escriure:
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jdd wrote: | Cristian Rodriguez a écrit : |> jdd escribió: |> |>> there could be a medium point. I would be ready to pay a small fee |>> ($10/year?) for security patches for kernel, apache, postfix and some |>> very limited server apps. |> |> I assume you are joking right ? so you really think a fee of $10 will |> be enough ? with $10 you dont even pay one man's hour !! |> |> | sles is $ a year for many more apps, so no I don't think it's not enough. | | An other answer said I can do it myself and it's what I plan to do, so | why shouldn't somebody do this for a fee? | | the only problem is trust. This must be done by somebody trustable. May | be a job opportunity for somebody else... | | jdd | im sure someone could probably do it, but you cant re distribute it without first stripping out the novell name everywhere it is seen inside opensuse. other distros do this with RHEL. im sure there are legalities and other hurdles as well, but that is the first to come to mind.
The big difference between novell and redhat is that redhat publishes the SRPMS every time they release a new rpm (even for the updates). Novell does not do that. Novell publishes the srpm when it publishes the Service Packs, as they are freely downloadable. Only Novell customers can get the srpms of the updates and I am quite sure the SLA has some restrictions on recompiling them and redistribuing it. Am I wrong? Or I am allowed to do that if I am a Novell customer?
I think you will notice that Redhat only publishes the SRPM to their RHN users too. As for any redistribution questions, please contact our sales folks. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org