I know this has been beaten to death, but someone on our local users group just asked why it's not OK to trade a VmWare key but it is OK to give him a CD burn of SuSE 8.2 Pro. Help me with some quick links, folks, please ? -- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================
* Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) [030529 18:27]: ->I know this has been beaten to death, but someone on our local ->users group just asked why it's not OK to trade a VmWare key but ->it is OK to give him a CD burn of SuSE 8.2 Pro. Help me with ->some quick links, folks, please ? Because VMware's license doesn't let you do that. The only restriction against copying SuSE is that you can't sell it for profit..where as VMware doesn't care if you profit or not. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) [030529 18:27]: ->I know this has been beaten to death, but someone on our local ->users group just asked why it's not OK to trade a VmWare key but ->it is OK to give him a CD burn of SuSE 8.2 Pro. Help me with ->some quick links, folks, please ?
Because VMware's license doesn't let you do that. The only restriction against copying SuSE is that you can't sell it for profit..where as VMware doesn't care if you profit or not.
Thanks Ben, but what I really need right now is the most succinct link to a page that spells out a SuSE user's right to make copies. Can anybody provide our group with that? -- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================
I beleive section 3 deals with what you are interested in. Hope it is what you are looking for: http://www.suse.de/us/private/support/licenses/yast.html On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 21:43, Glenn Holmer wrote:
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) [030529 18:27]: ->I know this has been beaten to death, but someone on our local ->users group just asked why it's not OK to trade a VmWare key but ->it is OK to give him a CD burn of SuSE 8.2 Pro. Help me with ->some quick links, folks, please ?
Because VMware's license doesn't let you do that. The only restriction against copying SuSE is that you can't sell it for profit..where as VMware doesn't care if you profit or not.
Thanks Ben, but what I really need right now is the most succinct link to a page that spells out a SuSE user's right to make copies. Can anybody provide our group with that?
-- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================
Because VMware's license doesn't let you do that. The only restriction against copying SuSE is that you can't sell it for profit..where as VMware doesn't care if you profit or not.
That's true for YaST. But does SuSE keep the software with resrticting licenses on a separate CD, so you can avoid copying theses? -- Kaare Rasmussen --Linux, spil,-- Tlf: 3816 2582 Kaki Data tshirts, merchandize Fax: 3816 2501 Howitzvej 75 Åben 12.00-18.00 Email: kar@kakidata.dk 2000 Frederiksberg Lørdag 12.00-16.00 Web: www.suse.dk
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