On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:14:35AM -0700, Renegade Penguin wrote: > 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?
Fucking get a clue folks ... Or at least try reading up to the third paragraph. Let me quote: |The Software is a modular operating system. Most of the components |are open source packages, developed independently, and accompanied by |separate license terms. Your license rights with respect to |individual components accompanied by separate license terms are |defined by those terms; nothing in this Agreement (including, for |example, the "Other License Terms and Restrictions," below) shall |restrict, limit, or otherwise affect any rights or obligations You may |have, or conditions to which You may be subject, under such license |terms. So basically the brandnames and art of the collection is copyrighted, the packages / RPMs themselves can be freely shared according to their respective licenses. The next paragraph clarifies the use of Novell brandnames: |While the license terms for a component may authorize You to |distribute the component, You may not use any Novell marks (e.g., SUSE |and SUSE LINUX) in distributing the component, whether or not the |component contains Novell marks. So you shall not use "SUSE" or "Novell" when redistributing the RPMs. The paragraph before limits the use of the actual ISO CD sets we offer. Ciao, Marcus (IANAL) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
