> Not everything on the SuSE CDs is GPL-ed.  IIRC, YAST has a more
> "proprietary" license.  There may be other third-party commercial
> products on there as well, which cannot be freely copied under the
The ftp'able tree (e.g., 8.0 for i386) contains to my knowledge only
items whose licences allow public redistribution, even where they aren't
open source.  The retail boxed sets (Personal Edition, Professional
Edition, and Enterprise Edition) _add_ a number of additional
proprietary apps that are very much _not_ freely redistributable.
Freely redistributable proprietary apps in SuSE
T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars's xforms/xformsd graphics toolkit
NON-freely redistributable apps (in boxed sets):
Poet Software Corp. FastObjects SDK for Java and C++
MainConcept GmbH's MainActor video-editing package
MGE UPS Systems's Personal Solution Pac (MGE power management software)
Datan's dataplore digital-signal analysis package
Enterprise Solution Server (ESS) ERP system
Heisch Automatisierungstechnik's rk512 serial interface to Simatic S5 /
http://www.vshop.org/'s vshop e-commerce software for MySQL
All of the latter category either are available only via retail sale, or
are available lawfully on the public Internet only from authorised
distribution sites or on CDs from authorised distributors.  The exact
For example, you can download Borland Kylix Open Edition from
borland.com, free of charge -- but you'll notice there's no mention of
any right to redistribute.  That right is reserved by default to the
copyright owners, and Borland doesn't include it in the Kylix

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