Hello Adrian,
Adrian Schroeter wrote:
Hi,
I am atm at BrainShare and not up to date with my emails, but I saw this
this thread in list archive.
We do have two independend issues here, first the Wiki copyright
statement. Our legal department is a bit overloaded atm, but I am still in
good hope that we can remove the Copyright statement rather soon.
Thanks for the timely update. Much appreciate in your busy schedule.
Regarding the distribution license, all what it is good for is to avoid
having multiple "SUSE Linux 10.0" isos out there which do contain complete
different content. I think this is reasonable and helps us all, otherwise
people speaking about a SUSE Linux which we do not know at all maybe.
Previous versions of Suse were not distribution restricted. Actually
redistribution was encouraged as long as the original name was used.
This allowed service partners to drop them into charities in the past.
In return we gave our time to fixes and kept all that boring
configuration support away from Suse.
Unfortunately, the distribution restrictions on the Suse 9.3 release
installation mean that the good causes now have to pay for Suse
software. Money is tight in this area so this they would tend to favour
Debian as the choice.
I should promptly note that Business are a whole different area and they
naturally are willing to pay for supported releases as insurance for
when things don't work.
> Of course we _want_ to support forks of the distribution, all what one
> need is to change the name like "Adrians SUSE Linux" or "Helgas Home
> Linux". Nothing on the medias is copyprotected, because only software
with
> OSI licenses is on it.
>
I can see what you are saying but I gently suggest there much more
marketing value in keeping suse kits unchanged out there and visible.
BTW: I wonder if it would be enough to void the Novell license by
burning the ftp version onto a CD and putting own label on it. In any
case ownership is difficult to identify and as there was no fee paid and
it would be very difficult for Novell to identify damages.
I hope this helps.
It is great to see SuSE-Novell interacting in this way with us. I am
sure I speak from many by saying how much this is appreciated.
The next step would be to remove the normal commercial Novell license on
the OSS release.
bye
adrian
Adrian Schroeter
SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
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