Actually, it doesn't :-) Like any other software house, they are allowed to choose by themselves what license applies to the software they write on their own. If YAST had been developed by the community, and was GPL, _then_ it would stink as a skunk :-)
Stink like a skunk if it was developed by the open source community? That is definitely FUD. Look at KDE, Linux, Apache, Perl, the GNU Project - all of these projects are open source, and they don't stink! Further more I thought that was the reason people liked Linux - it was open source and the community helped make it stable! I always assumed YaST was open source - I can't believe it's not. ALL the major distro companies have open source config tools - RedHat, Caldera, Corel, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Stormix - ALL of them. It's disappointing to hear that an open source company doesn't believe in opening it's own software up. -Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============