From: Lars Müller (lmuelle_at_SuSE.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 10:29:03 CET
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:29:03 +0100 From: Lars Müller <lmuelle@SuSE.de> Message-ID: <20060314092903.GJ20649@gray.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:59:10AM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
[snip]
> I'm very interested about it, too. I'm in the same situation like you: I've
> considered to get the license for SLES, but my resources are little and this
> is not possible, simply, for economical reasons.
Then you should not consider to use SLES. For the reason see my later
reply to the initial question.
> I sopose that it's possible, so, in fact, there is a project that do it
> already: CentOS. CentOS is the Red Hat Enterprise Server rebuilded from
> sources licensed under GPL.
Wrong. Even CentOS can not relicense components under a different
license than the original project (PAM modules, OpenLDAP as two
examples) are.
Lars
-- Lars Müller [ˈlaË(r)z ˈmÊlÉ] Samba Team SuSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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