Hello, Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions: Dear Mr Maia, Thank you for your inquiry to our SUSE PreSales Service and your interest in SUSE LINUX. You wrote:
<>> I have two questions to make:
1. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at home freely?
No problem.
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
Hope this helps :) I think we can all end this discussion. Have fun, Francisco Andr� Maia suse@listas.deis.isec.pt wrote:
Hello,
I have two questions to make:
1. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at home freely? 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at a company freely?
Thanks in advance.
Francisco Maia
Thanks for the update On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:42, suse@listas.deis.isec.pt wrote:
Hello,
Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions:
Dear Mr Maia, Thank you for your inquiry to our SUSE PreSales Service and your interest in SUSE LINUX.
You wrote:
<>> I have two questions to make:
1. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at home freely?
No problem.
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
Hope this helps :)
I think we can all end this discussion.
Have fun, Francisco Andr Maia
suse@listas.deis.isec.pt wrote:
Hello,
I have two questions to make:
1. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at home freely? 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at a company freely?
Thanks in advance.
Francisco Maia
suse wrote regarding '[SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 06:48:
Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions: [...]
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
So, to be safe, you should just install the FTP version, since that stuff's freely distributable all over the place, and then if you need extra stuff from the CDs, just read the docs for each thing you get off of the CD? :) --Danny
On Fri, Oct 15, Danny Sauer wrote:
suse wrote regarding '[SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 06:48:
Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions: [...]
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
So, to be safe, you should just install the FTP version, since that stuff's freely distributable all over the place, and then if you need extra stuff from the CDs, just read the docs for each thing you get off of the CD? :)
Freely distributable does not mean that commercial use is not limited. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
Thorsten wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 13:52:
On Fri, Oct 15, Danny Sauer wrote:
suse wrote regarding '[SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 06:48:
Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions: [...]
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
So, to be safe, you should just install the FTP version, since that stuff's freely distributable all over the place, and then if you need extra stuff from the CDs, just read the docs for each thing you get off of the CD? :)
Freely distributable does not mean that commercial use is not limited.
I thought that all of the questionable / potentially limited software was only on the for-pay disks, not on the ftp site. Is that incorrect? --Danny
On Fri, Oct 15, Danny Sauer wrote:
Thorsten wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 13:52:
On Fri, Oct 15, Danny Sauer wrote:
suse wrote regarding '[SLE] [Solved] SuSE Pro Licencing' on Fri, Oct 15 at 06:48:
Here is the SuSE answer to the two questions: [...]
<>> 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any
number of PCs at a company freely? In this case you should have a look at the copyright information of each installed package. Background: the private use of included commercial software is mostly not limited to a defined maximum number of installations. The commercial use mostly is limited.
Yours sincerely, SUSE PreSales
So, to be safe, you should just install the FTP version, since that stuff's freely distributable all over the place, and then if you need extra stuff from the CDs, just read the docs for each thing you get off of the CD? :)
Freely distributable does not mean that commercial use is not limited.
I thought that all of the questionable / potentially limited software was only on the for-pay disks, not on the ftp site. Is that incorrect?
The ftp version does not contain software, where we have to pay for every copy or which license forbids us to distribute it per ftp. Only look at the licnese of QT: depending on what you develop with it, you have to pay for extra licenses or not (don't know if this is still true for qt, I don't know the license of all 3000+ packages. But it was in the past). Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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