Followup -- After rereading the SuSE license ( http://www.suse.com/us/private/ support/licenses/index.html ) I have to change my answer. The license is titled "YaST and SuSE LINUX license terms."
IANAL. It appears to me that redistribution without charge is ok, but that, if you want to charge anything for the copies including charging for the media, that you have to have a specific license from SuSE. Note that the licenses of any programs and packages still apply. Terry ----------------------- Post: Mon Nov 24 20:57:24 CST 2003 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
