That is correct, but that would apply also to Red Hat unless they specifically permit it. As I mentioned, there was a question posed on their English listserv a month or so ago. I was not able to find the messages when I made a quck search. AFAIK they do not object. On 21 May 2002 at 13:59, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, at 1:40pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > SuSE places the ISOs online after the release has been out for a month. > > This does not give you the right to make and/or distribute copies. They > are still copyrighted works (automatically); SuSE must explicitly give > permission for copying. If SuSE, for example, only allows the end-user to > download (and does not allow redistribution of) YaST, that would make things > difficult. You could still copy the rest of it (GPL, BSDL, etc.), but > without an installer, the distribution is not much use. > > I am honestly interested in an answer to this; I'm trying to decide if I > want to buy SuSE 8.0 or Red Hat 7.3. Not being able to distribute copies of > the distribution is a strike against SuSE for me (if that is, in fact, the > case). -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
