Your are quite correct SLED is a proprietary produce of Novell. The RPM's are not loading on a server as you purchase the boxed set and licences etc Scott :-)
steve reilly wrote: > On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:59, John Andersen wrote: > >> On Saturday 05 May 2007, Ra�l Moratalla wrote: >> >>> El Domingo, 6 de Mayo de 2007 02:19, Ra�l Moratalla escribi�: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there any way to get the source rpms for SLED 10? Should Novell >>>> provide them? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Raul >>>> >>> I searched more information and seems that they are available at the SLED >>> SDK DVD. But why don't provide them easily from a ftp server? >>> >> I dono, but perhaps the source RPMs become available once you buy SLED. >> >> I'm not sure they that are obligated to give you source if you are not >> a customer. >> >> This is backwards of the old Suse, where getting source was easy >> but getting an ISO image was virtually impossible. >> >> Opensuse is a different thing of course. >> >> -- >> _____________________________________ >> John Andersen >> > > > as far as I know, SLED is not gpl, and proprietary to novell therefore the > source isnt provided. Dont quote me on this though. I remember years ago > trying to sell off old box sets of suse I had purchased from novell on ebay > and had my seller status revoked and received nasty emails from novell. > > Like you said opensuse the source is freely available, and I believe is re > distributable but would have to remove any reference to novell in the whole > distro. kind of like what centos does with redhat linux. then again, im not > a lawyer lol. > > >
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