On Wednesday 29 August 2007 10:58, Rahulkrishna Gupta wrote: > > > > However avoid Novell-Suse like the plague (at least get rid of it > > within 180 days if u must taste forbidden fruit). Reason - you > > are in a legal limbo with that distro. > > Can the poster please explain the basis of above statements.
Everyone would much prefer that Novell issue an official statement clarifying their stance about redistribution of Novell Suse distros and their upgarde/additive licence. Heck no that is too complicated and difficult u know - make alist of gpl/mpl/apl stuff and a list of EULA restricted stuff. Instead u ask me to clarify. wonderful. > Or is this just another case of spreading FUD, Really? Could you please ask Novell and M$?. We would love to hear what they say. Should be easy for you. > especially to people > who are new to Linux and whom you are in a position to influence. Or to word it differently - move them away from the hook before they take the bait? Grep the list archives. also read the Novell licence which i am sure u have access to. Ok, here is the top secret url http://www.novell.com/licensing/eula/sled_10/sled_10_english.pdf > > Note: I have no intention to start a flame war, but when you say > strong words about any product / project, please back them up with > reasonable facts. Really? U may like to research the word FUD and read about the Novell M$ deal other than what Novell dishes out to justify the deal. To cut a long story short, using a Novell-Suse distro for more than the stipulated period (180 days) or beyond the permtted scope (no bench marking, no reverse engineering, no distribution outside your organisation etc etc) will void your licence to use. Also Novell agrees with M$ that it's distro contains M$ patented stuff (what stuff?, well, neither party cares to identify) and as a result of that agreement if anyone uses the distro, after cessation of the licence, can be sued by M$. Says who? Says M$. But the friend of the friend of the xyz who works at Novell says differently. Get it?. And by the way if you could go through the Novell website and provide proof to the contrary of the above in the form of an official Novell statement, it would help cut short any Ramayanic discourse on the motives, content and intentions of all parties and their licences. So instead of wasting our time decoding random licence symbols and legalese, just use several of the other distros that have a rock solid reuputaion for upholding freedom and staying away from the companies responsible for the OS mess. Debian, Ubuntu/Kubntu, Gentoo, Sabyon, RH, Fedora, Knoppix etc etc -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
