On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:53:17PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Monday, 23 January 2006 19:11 samaye, Christoph Thiel alekhiit: > > > > Programs under what licence will not be included in SUSE Linux? > > > > Programs that are licensed under an OSI > > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) compliant license... and some other > > open source licenses that aren't listed there. The The Artistic License > > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php) would be OK of > > course. > > Is there some confusion here? I asked what programs under what license with > **not** be included in SUSE Linux. Did you mean to list the licences that are > *allowed* or *not allowed*?
Allowed. Licenses that can be problematic are (besides any proprietary / closed / commercial ones of course) those with an attribution clause, i.e. a clause that says we have to mention the name of the author, or the project, somewhere on the box or the manual etc. In these cases we tend to contact the author and ask if they allow us to distribute the software without this, or we don't include the package because it is too much hassle. There may be other licenses mentioned on the OSI page cited by Christoph with which we might not be too happy for whatever reason, so it's a good idea to ask ;-) GPL and LDPL are fine, and so is the Artistic License, for all I know. Sonja (not a lawyer. all disclaimers apply.) -- Sonja Krause-Harder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
