On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:54:16 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip..
* A major one: the distro is not worth much without the patches. What you download from that server is nice for testing, but it is still not enough for production, because it lacks, say, the latest sendmail patch. So if you try to install this server in a production environment, it will either break, or will be broken-into.
And remember that the license of SuSE basically forbids everybody else to compit with SuSE in providing patches. So you basically have to have a support contract with SuSE.
How exactly does that work? What license terms do Suse impose on, for instance, sendmail, in your example? I suspect the authors of sendmail might be surprised to discover that Suse forbid them to provide patches...
The only 'license of SuSE' that's involved (AFAIK) is the Yast license...
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