After reading some license comments in alt.os.linux.suse (where they were specifically getting after someone who wanted to charge for copies of the cdroms), I went to the SuSE site to check the license. It looks to me like the YaST license specifically prohibits _charging_ for a redistribution of YaST and its derivatives without SuSE's written permission. I didn't find an absolute prohibition on distributing YaST.
This is not a clean answer. I did not find any direct reference, pro or con, to copying and distributing the cdroms or dvd in the packages. I saw a lot of answers that said "buy it" when people asked where they could get copies. I wonder what the license in the 9.0 Professional package says. Terry At 06:41 PM 11/24/2003, ray wrote: >On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Joey Kelly wrote: > > > Thou spake: > > >Purchased a business card CD of "Linux Rescue" and > > >don't see a copyright notice. > > > > Copyrite notice? Um, Linux is free, dude... no vendor can place a license > > forbidding copying of their Linux distro, AFAIK. > >Well not really.... If i have certain proprietary software in my distro >that i decide to not license under GPL or BSD, i could certainly use a >license that restricts you from redistributing it. > >For instance, YaST in Suse is proprietary and not licensed under GPL. So >with all this talk about copying Suse 9 cd's, i'm not sure if that's >entirely legal. Anyone else know? > >ray -- Terry Stockdale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Baton Rouge, LA website: http://www.dadstoy.net
