Novell cannot impose any restrictions by taking away anything that the
GPL allows.
You indeed can make a custom distro based upon all of the GPL & Open
Source software in the source. Whitebox does this with RedHat.
Perfectly legal.
Maybe if Novell really doesn't allow redistribution for commercial
companies in this manner (and they should be allowed to legally, if I
understand correctly) then someone ought to "whitebox" OpenSUSE?
Just my 2¢.
RP
Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
2005/10/11, Michael K. Dolan Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Right, that's the license.txt from the GM version's root directory -
where in the OSS distro do you have to comply with that license?
I think this is what you are asking for:
ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/LICENSE.TXT
I just have a good lunch and have time to calm down and think about it a
little more.
I just realizes that i can just delete that licence and use SUSE the way the
GPL say´s, why ?? well because, all the media of novell and suse are in fact
in rpms package with a GPL licence agreement, so if you make a custom distro
using thats gpls package there is nothing Novell can say about it even if
have some logos o r media of any kind, the put there the GPL licence not me.
You just need to remove the Novell and SUSE media in the "/boot" and
probably the "/suse/setup" directories and of curses that's stupid licence
agreement.
This is a free kind of business, if Novell want to participate, have to
learn about what the free word means.
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Marcel Mourguiart
