At 04:20 PM 10/14/2004 +0100, Stephen Black wrote:
SuSE's own website states quite clearly that the product is subject to the GNU GPL. See page http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/licenses/ The text on that page states:
'The Linux kernel and the major part of all Linux applications are subject to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the "GPL", a license that guarantees free availability and the disclosure of the source code.'
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I would have thought that the above is more than clear.
Steve Black
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1. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at home freely? 2. Is it legal to copy a CD/DVD of SuSE Pro and install it on any number of PCs at a company freely?
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Emphasis in the above quote added by me. I think that there are a number of commercial apps included on the DVDs that are not freely distributable. I'm not sure what they are, however. I should think that you could use them all on your home pc's, so long as you are not using those particular apps to do work which you intend to sell for profit. That would seem to me to be "fair use." (I'm not a lawyer, however.) OTOH, who would catch you? --doug