fpoeta_at_pandminc.com
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 21:07:48 CEST
Message-ID: <OF36D1060E.74F40FE7-ON85257203.006394D5-85257203.00692327@titian.com> From: fpoeta@pandminc.com Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:07:48 -0400 Subject: SPAM: SPAM: Re: [suse-sles-e] Lizenzfrage zu SLES 10 und XEN
Sorry but I think the original intent was whether he need to purchase
additional "license" not Upgrade Protection Licenses to be legal. An the
answer is no. "Thank you Novell." And He does not need to purchase
additional Upgrade Protection Licenses either! Most of the time in the
commercial software world you must purchase a "license" to use a product.
So in a the XEN environment when Windows runs you would need to purchase a
"license" from Microsoft for each instance of say Windows Server 2003
Standard running virtually. That is not the case for SLES.
As for the many "licenses" with in SLES that is the case in almost every
OS in existence today. Even on the mainframe. What is your point.
As this is not the place to have discussions on what constitutes a product
license verses a redistribution of licenses and if Novell could license
SLES see Serviceability clause ( We can write anything we want to and if
some or most is unenforceable or wrong whatever is right will remain
intact). It is better left to the court rooms and legislatures in our
respective countries.
Francis Poeta
President
P & M Computers, Inc.
An IBM Advanced Business Partner
201-943-0353(v)
201-943-0227(f)
Dr J Pelan <J.Pelan@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
10/10/2006 01:37 PM
To
fpoeta@pandminc.com
cc
Manfred Rebentisch <mrebentisch@comparat.de>, suse-sles-e@suse.com
Subject
Re: [suse-sles-e] Lizenzfrage zu SLES 10 und XEN
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 fpoeta@pandminc.com wrote:
> First there is no license for SLES or SLED there is only upgrade
> protection/maintanence or subscription.
Had you read the contents of the policy document that was linked to, you
would have noted that Novell refers to the maintenance policy as "Upgrade
Protection Licensing" and so the use of the term 'license' is entirely
appropriate and consistent with the OP's intended meaning.
You should also carefully distinguish between 'there is no license' and
'there is no *charge* for a license'. While Novell may not charge for a
license to use - both SLES and SLED do have End-User License Agreements.
In addition, as the EULAs stress, the vast majority of the software
packages (including kernels, tools and applications) shipped with these
distributions are covered by their own licenses - typically, but not
exclusively, of the open source variety.
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