On Friday 19 January 2007 17:16, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
Well, I am no license lawyer, so I just go an ask peoplewho know about it or who know somebody who knows about it.
So that's what I did, ask somebody. I asked a KDE\SUSEdev. So he spoke to his product manager or some such and got back with this -
" there are 2 versions: the boxed version and the internet version the boxed version has OSS and non OSS on one DVD, and the CD set the internet version has an OSS DVD, an OSS CD set, and a non-OSS CD.
all the internet media are redistributable
How very nice and kind of these fellas. Then why is the licence the way it is?. As i said it doe not matter what anybody in the company has to say. Your clicking on "I Agree" is the final word.
but the non-OSS CD must be distributed as a whole ie you can't remaster it without XYZ and call it openSUSE.
the internet version is freely redistributable by any means
the non-OSS internet media may not be; that is part of the conditions by which SUSE are allowed to include them on the distro
i hope i've made it clear that the non-modification applies to the non-OSS CD "
Point me to a location on their website that says so. That would be official confirmation of what they mean in the licence.