Swearing aside, this was exactly my point. Anyone can "whitebox"
OpenSUSE and simply remove the brandnames and graphics and you'd be fine.
Yes, this is certainly a lot of work, as you'd need to leave in the
correct copyright notices, etc. Lots of people do this with Cooker and
Mandriva.
RP
Marcus Meissner wrote:
|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)
