suse usage restrictions in a company
what is permitted by suse's license; is it allowed to use a 8.x copy of suse in a company or must each suse workstation be installed with a bought copy of suse? Phrased differently; are copies of SuSE 8.x only allowed to be used at home or personally?? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:29:41 +0200
Richard Bos
what is permitted by suse's license; is it allowed to use a 8.x copy of suse in a company or must each suse workstation be installed with a bought copy of suse? Phrased differently; are copies of SuSE 8.x only allowed to be used at home or personally??
Many times this has been asked, and the answer is you can install your copy of SuSE on as many machines as you want. You are not supposed to give away copies though, although they are letting it go if you do not charge for the copies. That centers around Yast2 being proprietary software, and SuSE does not give away the rights to copy it without their consent. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
Op woensdag 4 juni 2003 20:47, schreef zentara:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:29:41 +0200
Richard Bos
wrote: what is permitted by suse's license; is it allowed to use a 8.x copy of suse in a company or must each suse workstation be installed with a bought copy of suse? Phrased differently; are copies of SuSE 8.x only allowed to be used at home or personally??
Many times this has been asked, and the answer is you can install your copy of SuSE on as many machines as you want. You are not supposed to give away copies though, although they are letting it go if you do not charge for the copies. That centers around Yast2 being proprietary software, and SuSE does not give away the rights to copy it without their consent.
Thanks for your clear phrasing :) I know the question has been asked before, but I could not find the answer => I probably did not dig long enough... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Richard Bos wrote:
Op woensdag 4 juni 2003 20:47, schreef zentara:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:29:41 +0200
Richard Bos
wrote: what is permitted by suse's license; is it allowed to use a 8.x copy of suse in a company or must each suse workstation be installed with a bought copy of suse? Phrased differently; are copies of SuSE 8.x only allowed to be used at home or personally??
Many times this has been asked, and the answer is you can install your copy of SuSE on as many machines as you want. You are not supposed to give away copies though, although they are letting it go if you do not charge for the copies. That centers around Yast2 being proprietary software, and SuSE does not give away the rights to copy it without their consent.
Thanks for your clear phrasing :)
I know the question has been asked before, but I could not find the answer => I probably did not dig long enough...
What I really want to see is a pointer to an *official* statement on the web site saying it's OK to copy it. All I've ever heard is folks on the list giving their opinions. This is all I've been able to find: http://www.suse.de/us/private/support/licenses/yast.html http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/10_reasons.html (see point 4) http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/ (see "Merely a few...") I'd appreciate it if someone (anybody from SuSE seeing this?) could post a really definitive answer to this vexing question. P.S. At work, we just bought a bunch of copies of 8.2 Pro; my boss (bless him) said "We should support SuSE." I told him that the distro isn't really where they make their money and we should consider paid support from SuSE next time we have something we don't understand; he agreed (if you knew what we spend for support on our IBM AS/400s...). -- ================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) -------------------------------------------------- "You may think this is the finest pearl But it's only cardboard balls, seamed in glue Overwhelming technique; done through diligence" -------------------------------------------------- -Captain Beefheart, "Best Batch Yet" ==================================================
The 03.06.04 at 14:47, zentara wrote:
supposed to give away copies though, although they are letting it go if you do not charge for the copies. That centers around Yast2 being proprietary software, and SuSE does not give away the rights to copy it without their consent.
It could also apply to some programs included on the distro that are not open, or non redistributable. I wonder if there is a list of them :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:57:54 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R."
The 03.06.04 at 14:47, zentara wrote:
supposed to give away copies though, although they are letting it go if you do not charge for the copies. That centers around Yast2 being proprietary software, and SuSE does not give away the rights to copy it without their consent.
It could also apply to some programs included on the distro that are not open, or non redistributable. I wonder if there is a list of them :-?
They used to be in a separate catagory called "Pay" if I recall correctly; but the new yast2 don't seem to make them easy to find. The closet I could find was ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/commercial but I don't think that's the list. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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