Quoting Niall O Broin (niall at linux.ie):
> This is exactly what I've been saying - SELLING is what's at issue
> here. I never said or intimated that there was any problem with giving
> away copies of SuSE CDs - I do that myself on occasion (actually I
> trade them for beer, don't I Liam :-) )
Possibly, you're referring to the Evaluation and Live-Eval ISOs. SuSE
permit non-commercial redistribution of those, as stated here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/README.iso-images.english
The boxed set (Professional and Personal Editions) CDs are a _very_
different matter, as they include non-publicly-redistributable
proprietary software from third parties. Even if SuSE wanted to allow
such copying, they couldn't, because it's other people's property at
stake.
--
Cheers, "On the face of it, Microsoft complaining about the source license
Rick Moen used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black."
rick at linuxmafia.com -- Adam Barr, former Microsoft Corp. programmer
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