Linspire has very severe limitations on copying and distribution, i am not sure, but it would be in breach of the gpl, regardless of any deal they would have made with Microsoft. And having a freespire, opeSUSE etc is a slap in the face of the free software / Open source movement as a whole. The main idea being Open source / Free software is not a free and lesser variant of a bigger, un-free chunk of software, it took about 8 years of strong advocating and hard work form the community to disassociate itself and its truly free full value (product) from the cripple ware and demo ware that was more associated with the abuse of the word "free" only to be desecrated by the likes of Linspire and SuSe ... Cheers Szemir
Ps.: I do remember when SuSe, before Novell, was , as a distro, non-free. But the only limitation there was that you could not sell SuSe disks, hardly a problem, for LUGS and normal people. When Novell bought SuSe, with all the stare that caused, they actually GPLed SuSe ... just a historic note. When I Say SuSe here i mean the installer and the package manager (yast) and the good bunch of software that glues the distro together, and not it's otherwise OSS or GPL package content. On July 22, 2007 13:41, sgrover wrote: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007072014373817 > > If you read past PJ's inflections here, there is STILL a lot to be > concerned about. I can safely say that Linspire will never get near my > computers now.... > > This "deal" says you can't modify, distribute, or use for "unauthorized" > purposes. So much for the GPL. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
