From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:01:17 CET
Message-Id: <CFC08438-64A7-4FEF-A1FF-8590F1390D66@halligan.org> From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:01:17 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
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My point here, is what exactly are you paying for with SLES? almost
everything in the SLES distribution is owned
by somebody that is not Novell. Novell owns a few apps, that mainly
are involved with SLES management, and
all of the various (superfluous) Novell/NDS management & integration
utilities.
When I pay Novell for a "License", I'm getting access to the update
service, and a license to use the software that
Novell owns. The rest of the software in that distribution, which
Novell does not own, I still have to worry about the
licensing. Either way, whether I pay for the update service or not, I
have to worry that Novell was ethical in the
software it has chosen for it's distribution.
Michael T. Halligan
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On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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