Copies of CDs for sale
On http://pctech101.com/products.php?cat=245 it is possible to buy the 5CD/2DVD set for 29.99. Much lower then the official price. I asume these are copies, not the original boxed sets. How legal is this to do? Do they have an agreement with Novell? Can I just start selling copies of the boxed set and advertise them as "SuSE 10.0" (Or the correct spelling "SUSE Linux 10.0"). houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
On 2006-03-30 at 09:36:47 +0200, houghi wrote (shortened):
On http://pctech101.com/products.php?cat=245 it is possible to buy the 5CD/2DVD set for 29.99. Much lower then the official price. I asume these are copies, not the original boxed sets.
How legal is this to do? Do they have an agreement with Novell? Can I just start selling copies of the boxed set and advertise them as "SuSE 10.0" (Or the correct spelling "SUSE Linux 10.0").
They also ship a set of merchandising. I wonder if those are official products or trademark-violating ones? CU, Wolfgang -- SUSE LINUX GmbH -o) Tel: +49-(0)911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstr. 5 /\\ Fax: +49-(0)911-740 53 679 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v simply change to www.suse.com
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:48:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
On 2006-03-30 at 09:36:47 +0200, houghi wrote (shortened):
On http://pctech101.com/products.php?cat=245 it is possible to buy the 5CD/2DVD set for 29.99. Much lower then the official price. I asume these are copies, not the original boxed sets.
How legal is this to do? Do they have an agreement with Novell? Can I just start selling copies of the boxed set and advertise them as "SuSE 10.0" (Or the correct spelling "SUSE Linux 10.0").
They also ship a set of merchandising. I wonder if those are official products or trademark-violating ones?
As you are SUSE.de, perhaps you know who I can contact inside SUSE/Novell to clear this up. You could also ask them yourself, if you know them. I just don't want to tell anybody what to do. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:15, houghi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:48:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
On 2006-03-30 at 09:36:47 +0200, houghi wrote (shortened):
On http://pctech101.com/products.php?cat=245 it is possible to buy the 5CD/2DVD set for 29.99. Much lower then the official price. I asume these are copies, not the original boxed sets.
How legal is this to do? Do they have an agreement with Novell? Can I just start selling copies of the boxed set and advertise them as "SuSE 10.0" (Or the correct spelling "SUSE Linux 10.0"). No, you can't. Box EULA does allow only distribution without consideration. So anybody selling the box media does this illegally. Michael
They also ship a set of merchandising. I wonder if those are official products or trademark-violating ones?
As you are SUSE.de, perhaps you know who I can contact inside SUSE/Novell to clear this up. You could also ask them yourself, if you know them. I just don't want to tell anybody what to do.
houghi
-- Michael Löffler, Product Management Email: michael.loeffler@suse.de Phone: +49 911 74053-376 SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nuremberg Software for the Open Enterprise www.novell.com/open --------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday 30 March 2006 11:51, Michael Loeffler wrote:
No, you can't. Box EULA does allow only distribution without consideration. So anybody selling the box media does this illegally.
You only mention the box-media. Can you sell the downloadable media? I'm asking because I refer to these on my site - but if they're selling SUSE illegally I'll remove these links of course. http://www.linuxcd.org http://www.osdisc.com cb400f
On Thursday 30 March 2006 14:47, Martin Schlander wrote:
On Thursday 30 March 2006 11:51, Michael Loeffler wrote:
No, you can't. Box EULA does allow only distribution without consideration. So anybody selling the box media does this illegally.
You only mention the box-media. Can you sell the downloadable media? You can sell it if it's the open source version. All versions containing proprietary 3rd party softwarea are not allowed for resale. So some versions on sale on the mentioned pages are legal some are illegal.
Michael
I'm asking because I refer to these on my site - but if they're selling SUSE illegally I'll remove these links of course.
http://www.linuxcd.org http://www.osdisc.com
cb400f
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