From: Rainer Duffner (rainer_at_ultra-secure.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:22:17 CET
Message-ID: <441709D9.6070508@ultra-secure.de> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:22:17 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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> Lars,
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> Legally, Novell is not allowed to withhold access to the source
> modifications that it makes to other people's
> GPL'd software.
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Probably, yes.
But IIRC they don't have to be generally available.
GPL only says the changes need to be available to those who got the
binaries.
If you've got an active maintenance contract, you can go to the
patch-download site and download the src.rpms.
If you've got the money to run the commercial apps that probably run
ontop of SLES, you've also got the money to pay for SLES itself.
If you only run OSS-software on SLES, you're using the wrong platform (IMO).
cheers,
Rainer
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