Re: [SLE] Novell's licence for you to use OpenSUSE 10.2
- From: jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:27:59 -0500
into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Sunday 05 November 2006
1:24 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 05 November 2006 05:16, Basil Chupin wrote:Or if I might add something to you summary, Anders, Learn to lie to your
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. ....."
Yes, without copyright the GPL is just a text file. The GPL is a
copyright license
"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....."
Standard blurb. But most (in the free version all) licenses do allow
you to mess with the source, so it doesn't really matter
"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..."
So, if you send in something saying "man, I love this stuff, this is
the best thing ever", Novell gets to use it in marketing without having
to ask special permission
Aren't these somewhat strange conditions considering with we are
dealing with open source here?
No, it's fairly standard
But the worrying part I am finding is the last condition I quote in
light of Novell having gone into bed with M$.
huh?
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.
I don't understand this at all. Really, I don't.
If you're that worried about misuse of *feedback*, then don't send any
web browser when you leave any information anywhere. Change your name in
the submission. Unless you are on a site that checks, and you are signing
up for ?? give them a fake name.. or give them a Gmail, or Yahoo, or AOL,
for that matter email address.
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