From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_msu.edu)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 18:27:03 EDT
Linux is GNU Pu blic License software.
This means its free, and yours, subject to the conditions in the
license which is pretty good for individual use. Basiclaly you
are restricted from not giving out the source if you sell it, and
things developed with it are GPL'd, too.
So this is far better than what MS does to you. You'll have all
the source for everything except *maybe* a driver or two (like
for winmodems), but otherwise its all there.
You can FTP it for free too, most likely. My big problem when I
go looking at Linux is trying to figure out which distribution is the
best. Thats hard.
The BSD UNIXs (Net-, Open- and FreeBSD) are "BSD" licensed
which is basiclly that you can do anything with it, as long as you
don't take off the BSD license at the top of each file. Don't forget
the BSD UNIXs when looking around.
--STeve Andre'
the license, which basically say
On Friday 03 May 2002 06:05 pm, you wrote:
> If I purchased Suse Linux 8 would that software be mine to use on all the
> computers I own as I please or am I just renting it like windoze?
> Thanks, Toni
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