On 23.02.2018 09:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2018-02-23 08:27, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 22.02.2018 19:00, Liam Proven wrote:
SLE, the enterprise distro. Slow release cycle, stable, supported, costs money -- traditional software licensing model
NO. NO. NO.
Most of the software in SLE is still GPL. AIUI (I'm not a lawyer), it is basically impossible for SUSE to sell a GPL license to anyone.
If the GPL forbade selling, the license would not be libre and go counter to its own spirit. So that's not it.
My wording might be incorrect, but still: SUSE is selling subscriptions, not licenses. IANAL, but as I understand it, you can sell the software, but not the license. Or to put it another way: if you were to buy the GPL license for the software, the license allows you to give it away for free to anyone. That's not what would allow SUSE (and RedHat and others) to build a sustainable business model. So they are selling subscriptions and services, with different conditions than the GPL (limitations of numbers of machines for example) -- Stefan Seyfried Ceterum censeo fluid-soundfont esse delendam (from the Leap 15 DVD :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org