[Gllug] Some Advice on SUS licencing.

Alistair Mann alistair at lgeezer.net
Mon Feb 9 10:48:33 UTC 2004


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Thus spaketh Andrew Halliwell on Monday 09 February 2004 10:29 am:
> > David was right: he can copy his friend's CD, support free, without
> > paying Suse a penny. Similarly, David's friend can charge him whatever he
> > fancies for handing him that CD, a charge which will no doubt include his
> > costs in labour, media, whatever.
>
> Incorrect.
> Just because most of the packages in a distribution are GPL does NOT make
> the whole distro GPL.

You and Christopher are both, of course, right. Indeed, I wrote specifically 
to make that point myself moments after rereading my original.

Of course, I "replied to poster" instead of "replied to list" ... doh!
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Alistair
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