I just checked with our legal team. firmware blobs doesn't but Adobe Flash and acroread prohibit redistribution. With Java its pretty tricky as larger parts are under the Distributor License for Java (DLJ) and some uses and older Sun Binary Licence which doesn't allow redisribution.
Why acroread and flash can't be redistributed? We had them on the "complete" media since I started to use suse (9.0).
Did they recently change their licence? No. The point is that Novell has a contract with Adobe and the other vendors of proprietary sw we ship. These contracts allow us to shop openSUSE with
On Friday 08 February 2008, you wrote: this software but don't allow that the user distribute this software to others (friends, neighbors etc.). All of the proprietary software vendors won't go after you if you redistribute this as they want distribution of their software but they don't allow officially redistribution of their sw. M
Regards, Alberto
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