On Feb 02, 11 18:27:02 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
I take this opportunity to make a small question regarding BY-NC-ND. cases the authors were kind enough to remove the NC. NC might become a problem to SLES/SLED, and in a way to openSUSE as we have boxed packages anyway.
What is the status on this CC's with NC ?
NC restricts to Non-Commercial use only. E.g. CC-NC-ND says: 4.b) You may not exercise any of the rights ... in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.... Given the fact that Novell/SUSE needs to make money in order to pay my salary, we obviously seek commercial advantage. openSUSE boxes can be bought in stores, SLE customers pay for support and so on. CC-NC-ND 4b) continues with examples without payments, and allows them. But it does not draw an exact borderline. This results in-dubio in a no-go. But if a helpful copyright owner can be contacted, I suggest to ask him a simple question: Do you consider our activites as commercial use with regard to your license? Chances are you get an answer like "No problem. Your distribution is the best advertising my software could get! You do not actually USE the software, do you?" I found, that -- fortunatly -- NC is not a well defined term. Many people appear to seperate 'distribution' from 'use' in this context. I am not advising you to base any business decisions on such private one-time communications. You may learn of misunderstandings or other traps later, if you do. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ _ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org