Quoting Federico A. Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > okay, will post suse's reply as soon as i get a reply from my friend. > anyway, i have no intentions of being an a*hole to you guys, just wanna > prove my point that suse can be redistributed freely (there are certain > clause like no tech support, etc..)
Believe me, nobody doubts your intentions. The problem's not your fault: SuSE Linux AG has long left this as a problem for people, and failed to clarify it. That's actually why I wrote http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/suse-product-strategy , to try to help. Part of the problem is that there are _six_ different editions of SuSE Linux, if you include the "evaluation" edition that hasn't been updated since version 7.0: Evaluation, Live-Eval, Ftp, Personal, Professional, and Enterprise. Some of those, such as the 7-CD SuSE Professional edition, adds a number of third-party commercial packages under restrictive licences. SuSE Linux AG _couldn't_ give you permission to redistribute those packages, since they don't own the legal rights. But people _know_ that "SuSE Linux" may be redistributed, because they've seen it happen a lot, and maybe have heard or read about permission statements making that possible. Only, inevitably that turns out to be based on the Ftp, Evaluation, or Live-Eval editions, not the boxed-set editions. -- Cheers, There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
