Re: Suse 10.1 Remastered

On 2006-10-24 18:33, houghi wrote:
birre wrote:
but this one from the "linux format" magazine has other distros too , and do not
have that file, so I don't know from where the text I see during install is loaded.

The fact that it is from a magazine can mean two things. 1) It is legal
to copy or 2) It is a specific promotion made by Novell.

Only very seldom does Novell make one that is different from what is
downloadable. So I will asume it is a standard one

In general the attitude from Novell is not so much the worry about
copying SUSE, but about the trademark. As long as you just copy the CDs,
they do not realy mind.

The moment you market it as your own and sell it, they will be all over
you

houghi

Now I found it :-)
root ss95 # gfind /export/u3/linux/Suse -iname license\*
/export/u3/linux/Suse/i386/10.1-Beta3/CD1/media.1/license.zip
/export/u3/linux/Suse/i386/10.1/media.1/license.zip
/export/u3/linux/Suse/i386/10.1/non-oss/media.1/license.zip
/export/u3/linux/Suse/i386/sles10/media.1/license.zip
/export/u3/linux/Suse/i386/sled10/media.1/license.zip
/export/u3/linux/Suse/x86_64/sles10/media.1/license.zip

It's packed in a zip file.

Where the other versions has:
"You may make and distribute outside Your Organization an unlimited
number of copies of the Software.
"
SLED 10 has:

"You must acquire a
license for each installation of the Software and for each
additional copy (or partial copy) of the Software stored or
loaded in memory or virtual memory beyond the initial copy
necessary for execution of the Software installed on the
hardware.
"
And a page down:
"Novell reserves all rights not expressly granted to You. You may
not: (1) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software
except and only to the extent it is expressly permitted by
applicable law or the license terms accompanying a component of
the Software; or (2) transfer the Software or Your license rights
under this Agreement, in whole or in part.
"

Even if it is as you say, it's something that can't be ignored,
and now I must figure out how our license agreements with
Novell really works, since we allow our developers to PXE boot/install
every valid version of Debian,Redhat,Suse,Ubuntu when they need it,
and really don't know how many users there is on every dist.

But as I wrote in the beginning, SLED is not for my personal computer
@ $HOME , where I only use free software when possible, but I can't resist to
add a few proprietary things like nvidia drivers and flash9 and some codecs,
software from packman , and hope the future will eliminate the need for things
like that, and vendors can learn to flash their secrets in the hardware and
release the specs/code how to talk to it, and flash is open or replaced.

/birre

.

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