[wellylug] Getting SUSE??

[Joerg Frochte]

* Paul <thincritter at xtra.co.nz> [030617 06:46] schrieb:
> Is it possible/legal to get a full copy of the current version of SUSE in 
> NZ other than by buying a boxed copy or do they licence their distribution 
> differently due to included proprietary apps?  
> If it is available, can you please let me know if you can supply it.  

First of all: NO WARRANTIES 

The last time I really read the SuSE licence (SuSE 7.3) IMHO it was that way : 

* Yes you are allowed to copy SuSE CD's , if you don't sell them.
* Yes you are alloded to copy SuSE CD's on an NFS-Server in an Intranet.
* Yes you can mirrow the SuSE-ftp-server for Internet and Intranet.

The SuSE CD's contains non-free-stuff so it is often illegal to pubish them 
in the Internet. The SuSE ftp-Server is free of most of this stuff, so 
you are allowed to. YaST is self is not really free at all. See 
 
http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/licenses/yast.html

for details. These are the terms you have got to deal with, because 
you can't use SuSE without YaST.

Bye,

Joerg