Comments on: Growing FOSS communities through EULA's http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/10/growing-foss-communities-through-eulas/ Life, Linux and Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Holidays etc | Steven Harms' Blog http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/10/growing-foss-communities-through-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Holidays etc | Steven Harms' Blog Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:54:39 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=233#comment-870 [...] OpenSUSE 11.1 RC1 released - Excited for this release - they removed the EULA I was complaing about [...] [...] OpenSUSE 11.1 RC1 released – Excited for this release – they removed the EULA I was complaing about [...]

]]> By: meaksd http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/10/growing-foss-communities-through-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-869 meaksd Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:42:14 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=233#comment-869 They mean branding. When you remove the branding you can distribute it. It's mostly GPL. They mean branding. When you remove the branding you can distribute it. It’s mostly GPL.

]]> By: Marius Gedminas http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/10/growing-foss-communities-through-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-868 Marius Gedminas Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:40:07 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=233#comment-868 Misleading distribution of pre-release versions branded as final versions has been a problem for a long time (e.g. the accidental nonfunctional "Debian 1.0" release by InfoMagic). On the other hand this EULA is too harsh. Couldn't they limit branding instead of distribution, i.e. say that if you distribute this, you must explicitly call it a pre-release of OpenSUSE. Misleading distribution of pre-release versions branded as final versions has been a problem for a long time (e.g. the accidental nonfunctional “Debian 1.0″ release by InfoMagic). On the other hand this EULA is too harsh. Couldn’t they limit branding instead of distribution, i.e. say that if you distribute this, you must explicitly call it a pre-release of OpenSUSE.

]]> By: Ian Stoffberg http://www.sharms.org/blog/2008/10/growing-foss-communities-through-eulas/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Ian Stoffberg Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:28:02 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=233#comment-867 I don't mind the EULA. My guess is that its related to the culture of suing everything that moves which is invading the world. Conservatives companies probably overuse these EULA's, but thats their prerogative. Regarding the effect on the community, I think Novell have done worse things than ship EULA's. Disclaimer: I *use* OpenSUSE 11 on my work laptop and Intrepid on my home desktop. I don’t mind the EULA. My guess is that its related to the culture of suing everything that moves which is invading the world. Conservatives companies probably overuse these EULA’s, but thats their prerogative.

Regarding the effect on the community, I think Novell have done worse things than ship EULA’s.

Disclaimer: I *use* OpenSUSE 11 on my work laptop and Intrepid on my home desktop.

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