On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:09:51PM +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: > >As far as I know, everything ever produced is copyrighted, whether it says > >so or not. Unless it explicitly relinquishes copyright (public domain) it > >will always be copyrighted. You know that the GPL is a copyright based > >license, right? > > > > GPL does not limit distribution but positively encourages it.
That is not what he is saying. He says that GPL is a form of copyright. In a way it is even a stricter form of copyright then standard copyright. > It seems > Suse and Open suse are copyright Novell so technically everthing is > claimed by Novell. The majority of programs on this CD falls under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This license can be found in the file "COPYING". That is what I read. You read something else and choose to leave. I wish you all the best with any other dirstibution. Don't forget to unsubscribe. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
