On Friday 19 January 2007 17:16, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote: > > Well, I am no license lawyer, so I just go an ask people > who know about it or who know somebody who knows about it. > > So that's what I did, ask somebody. I asked a KDE\SUSE > dev. So he spoke to his product manager or some such and got back > with this - > > " > there are 2 versions: the boxed version and the internet version > the boxed version has OSS and non OSS on one DVD, and the CD set > the internet version has an OSS DVD, an OSS CD set, and a non-OSS > CD. > > all the internet media are redistributable
How very nice and kind of these fellas. Then why is the licence the way it is?. As i said it doe not matter what anybody in the company has to say. Your clicking on "I Agree" is the final word. > > but the non-OSS CD must be distributed as a whole > ie you can't remaster it without XYZ and call it openSUSE. > > the internet version is freely redistributable by any means > > the non-OSS internet media may not be; that is part of the > conditions by which SUSE are allowed to include them on the distro > > i hope i've made it clear that the non-modification applies to the > non-OSS CD " Point me to a location on their website that says so. That would be official confirmation of what they mean in the licence. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
