[Fsfe-uk] Re: Clarification needed

[Richard Ibbotson]

Alex

> don't produce a Free GNU/Linux distribution. You can't make copies
> of SuSE Linux for your friends. In fact, I don't think you can even
> get installable evaluation editions anymore. Why should we support
> companies who only produce proprietary software?


Strangely enough there has been a very long thread about copying SuSE 
CDs on the SuSE list over the past week or so.  One of the e-mails 
contained a reply from <address@hidden>  which explained that copying 
the CDs for commercial gain is not allowed.  But, if you were to copy 
the CDs and give them to a friend then that is okay.  This is almost 
always the reply that I get back from them myself.

If however you write to the American office at <address@hidden> - 
Christopher Mahmood (I think ?) - then the answer from him is that 
you are only allowed to install one copy of SuSE software into any 
machine anywhere and if you copy a CD then the American office will 
sue you.  This is not in line with the way that the German managers 
think or do things.

So, who is right or wrong here ?


Thanks


-- 
Richard