Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk_at_suse.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 08:19:18 CET


Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:19:18 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20060314071918.GA22092@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License


On Tue, Mar 14, Leo wrote:

> Hi, everyone
>
> As I know, SLES is under GPL,

This is wrong, only a lot of packages are under GPL. But that's all, there
are much more package under other licenses like BSD or even commercial
one.

It is impossible to build a distribution only under GPL, far too many
core packages are not under GPL.

> it means I can install it on any computer without the concern of license.

This is not correct, you have to check the licenses of all packages,
you cannot ignore them.

  Thorsten

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