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OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined

Posted by kdawson on from the clear-and-simple dept.

nerdyH writes "Novell's recent openSUSE 11.1 release includes a new end-user license agreement modeled after Fedora's EULA, says Community Manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier in this detailed interview. Zonker says distributions should apply the 'open source principle' and standardize trademark agreements and EULA, similar to how the OSI sought to reduce open source license proliferation a few years back. But with Fedora and openSUSE being so different, can one size really fit all? And, will open source licenses ever finally get translated into languages besides English? (Zonker says that translation into 7 languages was done for openSUSE 11.1.)"

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  1. I gave up with Suse by JamesRose · · Score: 0, Troll

    When they started releasing .0 products at the same level that microsoft releases them.

  2. Read between the lines - they want to lock you in by xtronics · · Score: 1, Troll

    I left M$ because of lock in. If you don't want to get locked in, think of Debian or at least Ubuntu.

    To work on open software and retain rights to the contibution is not at all in the spirit of GPL-Opensource software.