From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk_at_suse.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 09:12:38 CET
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:12:38 +0100 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20060314081238.GA5646@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
On Mon, Mar 13, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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> Thorsten,
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> Would this not also be true with Commercial SLES as well, since
> Novell does not own 99% of the packages
> it distributes?
??? There is no "Commercial SLES" vs. "Free SLES". We have only one
SLES.
Thorsten
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
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> >
> >On Tue, Mar 14, Leo wrote:
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> >>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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