> > Yeah but Mandrake and Debian are 100% OSS, Suse is not>> <<Dons Flame > > Suit>> > Blerrrrgghhhhhhhh......... > Check your facts before posting FUD. SuSE is 100% open source software. > Has always been. Except for those parts which aren't OSS in Debian or > Mandrake either.
Depends on how you define open source. Yast1 fails the http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php definition on the first point. 1. Free Redistribution The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. Note can sell changes. vs from http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/licenses/yast.html The Licensee is obliged to make all work distributed by him which is derived as a whole or in part from YaST or parts of YaST to third parties as a whole under the terms of this licence without royalties. Note can't sell. Apparently Yast2's license just passes. So you can hardly say that they were always open source. Unless of course open source just means to you your allowed to look at the source code. Note that there is only one Distro using YaST SUSE. Chad
