[Glastonbury] My CUPS floweth not ...

[tim hall]

Last Thursday 11 November 2004 22:03, Ian Dickinson was like:
> > and am also becoming aware of
> > Debian's status as what I
> > believe is the only genuinely 100 percent royalty
> > free Linux distribution. It
> > does seem from your messages that CUPS does not
> > compromise that status,
> > whereas something like StarOffice would, I imagine,
> > if it was included as
> > part of the distribution. Though OpenOffice.org
> > would not. StarOffice is
> > included as part of the SuSE distribution that I
> > currently use, though I don't have it installed.
>
> I've never used StarOffice so I don't know anything
> about it.  But if it's included on the install disks
> for an otherwise free Linix distro I can't imagine
> that there's anything illegal or immoral about
> installing it.  It depends entirely on what the
> license terms say.

SuSE? Free? since when?

> > So copying the discs and passing them on would
> > infringe copyright somewhere...

Er, that's what I thought.

cheers

tim hall