James Ogley wrote:
not GPL, but not closed, it was never (AFAIK) - it was only
asked to quote when modified
It was "open source" in so far as the source was available and included
on release media.
It was non-free in so far as unacceptable[1] restrictions were placed on
how one could or could not redistribute it.
[1] In terms of GPL compatibility.
in fact the problem of the old SuSE distribution in regard
to the copy was not Yast, but the inclusion of some paid or
demo versions (Staroffice, do you remember the openoffice
father?) that where copyrighted. so copying these SuSE disks
was not so legal.
_this_ is one of the reason openSUSE/SUSE Linux must stay
"free" "open" as it is now.
jdd
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