-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 March 2004 07:16 am, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:02:00 -0000
Ben Higginbottom
wrote: In this months Linux User and Developer there's a quote from Juergen Geck saying that they are going to try and remedy the situation of the inclusion of proprietary software from suse, but I doubt that Yast and Sax will be released under the GPL for next month
Do you doubt they will be released GPLled next month or do you doubt they will ever be released GPLled?
I appreciate the step of dividing Free (OSI approved license) from non free software in CDs. I'd like to hear they are going a step further.
Novell has a nice opportunity to be felt welcome by the community.
Perhaps, but it is also arguable that the proprietary nature of YaST and SaX is the essence to SuSE's business success. It's not as if they do harm to the Open Source products they bring under management. If anything YaST is a means of formalizing the LSB, and ensuring that commonly used apps can play nicely together. You can read the source, and you can see how things are done. It should not be all that hard to emulate without violating, if you have the will to do so. Personally, I'm satisfied with how things are. If it would be harmful to SuSE (That part of Novell that produces SuSE Linux), I would not want to see it done. If Novell simply GPLed the code against the better interests of SuSE merely to please the Open Source community, I would consider that equal to any other form of corporate raiding. STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVacYwX61+IL0QsMRAva2AKCcR7A5hMgru31S1OmRrPDN367QJgCdHrPQ GrMIbrvOMQJvONZ3/HqQez8= =iccS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----