On Sunday 23 February 2003 02:33, Marino Fernandez wrote:

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On Friday 14 February 2003 04:59, Marino Fernandez

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And more important, can I install a single copy in several workstations at work and use it to make money...

No, in most countries the production of money is reserved for the official bank of the land.

Should I start thinking on Debian then?...

If you wanted a serious answer you really shouldn't ask on a list populated by simple users like me :) SuSE has official addresses too That said, my understanding of the license is that you can copy and give to a friend, so long as you don't get paid for it. And you can install one copy on several machines, but you only get installation support for one of them. But that's just my understanding. I am very much not a lawyer

Hi Guys, Whant you CAN NOT do is SELL copies of the SuSE disks for a profit on EBAY as some creeps do all too much. The SuSE disks contain 'samples' of commercial (non-GPL) s/w like VMWare and Netscape, OPERA etc. SuSE's own s/w like YAST and YAST2 are NOT GPL licensed and SuSE prohibits resale for profit. PeterB On Sunday 23 February 2003 01:52 pm, Fabio De Francesco wrote:

On Sunday 23 February 2003 03:16, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sunday 23 February 2003 02:33, Marino Fernandez wrote:

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--- Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Friday 14 February 2003 04:59, Marino Fernandez

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And more important, can I install a single copy in several workstations at work and use it to make money...

No, in most countries the production of money is reserved for the official bank of the land.

Should I start thinking on Debian then?...

If you wanted a serious answer you really shouldn't ask on a list populated by simple users like me :) SuSE has official addresses too

That said, my understanding of the license is that you can copy and give to a friend, so long as you don't get paid for it.

And you can install one copy on several machines, but you only get installation support for one of them.

But that's just my understanding. I am very much not a lawyer

My understanding of the GPL license is that you can be paid for the copies you give, if someone wants to buy from you what he/she can get for free. Viceversa you cannot be paid for the SuSE license, that is intended only to get your 90 day help from SuSE. In synthesis you can install this distribution where you like and ask for to be paid for that. However I think we (users) should pay people at SuSE for their good job. Fabio De Francesco

-- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --

* Marino Fernandez (mjferna@yahoo.com) [030223 23:18]: ->My original posting was heavily cropped and lost it's ->intended meaning... -> ->I said that in my country there have been recent raids ->by the goverment looking for pirated MS Windows ->copies... so people is starting to switch to linux.... ->and I wanted to know if I am safe with SuSE.... I am ->breaking any law by installing a single copy in ->several machines... can I go to jail.... -> ->Somebody suggested asking suse directly... that is the ->righ thing to do... so I'll let you know. Again. I'll say this. You can copy it until your burner dies and you can install on as many machines as you like until you get sick of the YaST2 install routine. :) What you can not do is make copies of the software and sell them...giving away is fine..selling is bad. :) So YES. You are safe with doing what you asked in your original email...and no your Government and the BSA will not come banging on your door for this act. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

Ok, maybe we're beyond the scope of the original question. Anyway what is important to understand is that everyone can copy GPL'd software and even HE CAN RESELL IT FOR MONEY. Fabio On Monday 24 February 2003 15:34, Bruce Marshall wrote:

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* Marino Fernandez (mjferna@yahoo.com) [030223 23:18]: ->My original posting was heavily cropped and lost it's ->intended meaning... -> ->I said that in my country there have been recent raids ->by the goverment looking for pirated MS Windows ->copies... so people is starting to switch to linux.... ->and I wanted to know if I am safe with SuSE.... I am ->breaking any law by installing a single copy in ->several machines... can I go to jail.... -> ->Somebody suggested asking suse directly... that is the ->righ thing to do... so I'll let you know.

Again. I'll say this. You can copy it until your burner dies and you can install on as many machines as you like until you get sick of the YaST2 install routine. :)

What you can not do is make copies of the software and sell them...giving away is fine..selling is bad. :)

Could he recover the cost of the media? I think he can.

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So YES. You are safe with doing what you asked in your original email...and no your Government and the BSA will not come banging on your door for this act.

* Marino Fernandez (mjferna@yahoo.com) [030222 17:36]: -> ->--- Anders Johansson wrote: ->> On Friday 14 February 2003 04:59, Marino Fernandez ->> wrote: ->> > And more important, can I install a single ->> > copy in several workstations at work and use it to ->> > make money... ->> ->> No, in most countries the production of money is ->> reserved for the official ->> bank of the land. ->> ->Should I start thinking on Debian then?... You can do exactly what you want..put it on as many workstations as you like..give it to whomever you like. Just don't sell copies of for profit and you should be fine. But remember that you will only get install support from SuSE for one..because you have one serial number although if you don't tell them what box your installing it on they most likely won't ask..and will answer your install support questions. ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.