Re: Install from .tar.gz

David Bolt wrote:

YaST has been under the GPL for several releases. It was under its own
license upto SuSE 9.0, and was re-licensed under the GPL in SuSE 9.1.
So, when you used SuSE 9.2, it had already been open for over 6 months.

With "closed" I do not mean closed source, I mean the specific data management, that doesn't allow to enter new packages *other* than RPM.

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