From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 08:24:18 CET
Message-Id: <6DFCE6FC-0C6B-41E7-A0B3-594880ED3449@halligan.org> From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:24:18 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
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Thorsten,
Would this not also be true with Commercial SLES as well, since
Novell does not own 99% of the packages
it distributes?
Michael T. Halligan
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On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>
> 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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