On Tue, 21 May 2002, at 1:40pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > SuSE places the ISOs online after the release has been out for a month.
This does not give you the right to make and/or distribute copies. They are still copyrighted works (automatically); SuSE must explicitly give permission for copying. If SuSE, for example, only allows the end-user to download (and does not allow redistribution of) YaST, that would make things difficult. You could still copy the rest of it (GPL, BSDL, etc.), but without an installer, the distribution is not much use. I am honestly interested in an answer to this; I'm trying to decide if I want to buy SuSE 8.0 or Red Hat 7.3. Not being able to distribute copies of the distribution is a strike against SuSE for me (if that is, in fact, the case). -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
