Re: [SLE] Novell's licence for you to use OpenSUSE 10.2

into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Saturday 04 November
2006 11:16 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
I don't know if the same wording is used in the licence you agreed to
when you installed v10.1 but the one which you have to agree to when
installing 10.2 (beta1 at least) states, in part:

"The software is protected by the copyright laws and treaties of the
United Sates. ....."

"The software is licenced to You, not sold...."

"You may not: (1) reverse engineer, decompile or diassemble the
Software except and only to the extent it is expressly permitted by
applicable law or the licence terms accompanying a component or the
Software; or (2) transfer....."

This bit was in 10.0 IIRC and, I suspect has to do more w/ "precautionary
action when a commercial company and their lawyers who are involved in
suchlike things ( there seems to always be a lawyer, or banks and floors
of lawyers, where a company listed on the Stock Exchange is involved).
<sigh>

"You understand and agree that Novell may use any feed back or
information You provide and You hereby grant Novell a perpetual and
irrevocable licence to use all such feedback and information for any
purpose without compensation to You, provided that Novell shall not
publicly reference Your name in connection therewith..."

No big deal here, so LONG as they do NOT release my name and any other
personal information

Aren't these somewhat strange conditions considering with we are
dealing with open source here?

But the worrying part I am finding is the last condition I quote in
light of Novell having gone into bed with M$.

Firstly, I don't see any reason why Novell has to know anything about
the computer I install the OS on; secondly, you agree to a "perpetual
and irrevocable licence" for Novell to use the information; and thirdly
(and we already know all about this thru outsourcing), while Novell
states that it won't publicly reference 'Your name' there is nothing to
state that whoever it passes this information to will be covered by
this qualification.

They "need" information about the computer you actually intend to use the
product on , so that they can at least attempt to keep up w/ all the
things that may need drivers or ???? It also lets them know what they are
doing right and what isn't hitting the mark in their advertising when
they know what you put the OS on..

For instance, should thousands of tablet type computers suddenly turn up
w/ attempts to install the current system upon, that maybe doesn't quite
work as planned and you would like the next release ( at least ) to make
all the buttons and swivels and bells and whistles to work, thank you.

Work out of the box , thank you very much!! But , if they take no info, w/
or w/o your name and all that personal info.. you could go years before
they know you want to run it on, oh the tablet, a hand held, perhaps a
phone ??? whatever.. if you as customer don't let them know it's not
just suddenly something that popped into your head, but a researched
future product potential ( next release or at least next major version
release ) and they better get on it most rickytick!

Those of us who jumped early into the multi core AMD 64 bit computers have
been happily futzing w/ our new versions , including pretty nearly
complete 64bit solutions . Had they not taken that info, one would be
spending lots of time rolling one's own. Not a thing one would prefer to
do for a whole system.



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