Am Dienstag, 29. August 2006 14:51 schrieb stephan beal:
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.
I'm not a lawyer, but in this case I just think: - regardig 1) if he gives the Suse software for free, not getting any consideration for that, but then eventually gets payd for his work with installing it, it should be ok, no? If not, nobody could ask to get paid for the installing work and then almost nobody would do it except on the own machine and maybe some friends ones, I guess. regarding 2) then he just must not bundle or combine the Suse software with his own, but just make two different things out of it: first install Suse and as a second job install his own software. According to this text it's not forbidden to ask beeing paid for software running on a Suse system, he just may not "bundle or combine" it. b.t.w. if its true that one may not bundle Suse Linux with hardware, then it would be impossible to sell PC's with pre-istalled Linux or complete systems for a certain business application runing on Suse Linux. If this is the case, every software developper *must* sell Win or Mac, because he can bundle it with what ever he wants, as long as he uses a licensed system. I can't believe that, so I *must* have misundersood something here... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch