They send you email every time a new package becomes available. The email has links to the binary RPM's.
Getting the source RPM's is a little harder. We had to ask for the link after I searched in vain on their web site. Either way, you need a code to access the download site. > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] so correct me if I am wrong > > > If you have the support contract with SuSE, you can download > the updates. > You get the source. You can freely redistribute those things that are > GPLed, which will be most of them. Since most of these > distributions are > GPLed, I think you already know the answer to most of your questions. > Neither of these companies is trying to destroy the GPL. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: so correct me if I am wrong > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > > > In this case, staying current=maintenance=support=$ > > > > They can make their money selling code also, it's just > harder because it > is > > freely redistributable. > > Is it freely-redistributable? > > Let's look at the updates to the current distro in both RH and SuSE: > > Can I download the updates from the internet? Sources as well > (srpms, for > both RH and suse). This would make my life a lot easier. > > And suppose I have aquired the right to download updates packages in a > support contract from RH/suse: do I get the source? (so I > can rebuild the > package later and adapt build options) > > And am I allowed to redistribute those packages? > > And am I allowed to make my own modified distro based on any of those > distros and sell it? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir >
