Re: [opensuse] Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

On 28/01/06, Maged Hussein wrote:

3- Make a vmware image of OpenSUSE with packages relevant to audience. There is some packages that essential to Windows user but I don't know what is the obligation if I included them within the vmware image namely: - RealPlayer - Acrobat Reader - Flash - Java - All dependednt parts on them.

The real issue here is with the companies who make those programs. You'd have to get permission to distribute from Real, Adobe, Sun, Macromedia and so on. That's probably ranging from hard to impossible. -- Paul