[Gloucs] Getting rid of Windoze

[Mick Brooks]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:40:33PM +0000, Steve Searle wrote:

Hi Steve,

> So I can download SuSE, sell it to you, you can give it to 10,000
> people, one of them can make loads of changes to it, sell it to someone
> else, who can then give it away to someone who can change it more.

Is this true? I know that there is an 'FTP' version of SUSE (still
called FTP, even though they provide an ISO now), but what about
some of the non-GPL'd software on there? For example, is YaST (or
however it's capitalized) on the FTP version (is anybody using it and
can tell me)? If so, its licence used to say that you couldn't
distribute it for a fee without express permission - or has that
changed?

I think the DVD in the box set is licensed differently, so that we can't
even copy it and give it away, let alone sell it.

SUSE don't seem to go out of their way to explain their licenses on
www.suse.com (this must be considered a FAQ by now), so I can't be sure
I've gotten this right. I'd love to know the definitive answers; does
anyone have a better clue?

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks at physics.ox.ac.uk