[Gloucs] SUSE licence

[Mick Brooks]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:53:16PM +0000, John Kilgour wrote:

Hi John,

> www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/reviewsuse92.html
> 
> describes the position that Novell takes. You will need to go to the
> bottom of the long page to see the relevant bit.
>
> As I understand it you CAN copy the software but NOT make a profit - even a 
> free pint!

Good link. That does clear things up - it'd be nice if they'd make it
official and post it on the SUSE site, though (unless it comes in the
box...)

(As an aside, Google shows that Novell did place yast under the GPL
recently.)

All the best,

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