See:
http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/licenses/yast.html
YAST may be open source, but clearly it is not GNU compatible.
There seem to be three important points.
1) If you modify YAST, dont blame SuSE for it.
2) You can give YAST away, but (under the default license) you CANNOT sell it.
[The implication is, we would rather you didn't give it away.]
3) There is a recaputure clause. If you modify YAST then SuSE basically owns
the rights to your modification.
For a commercial software license it is short and generous... but it is still
a commercial software license.
On Sunday 2004-01-11 21:12, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:22, der.hans wrote:
> > As for up2date, yast, et al. It is true that I don't know for certain
> > they don't do something wrong. For the Free Software implementations,
> > though, I'm certain they've been audited enough to be fairly certain.
>
> ---
> is yast open source? I got the impression that it is proprietary and the
> source code isn't available but I only used SuSE one time, an employee
> at one of my clients made his computer dual boot and I joined his samba
> to the Windows domain so he could access files a little easier. I did it
> from the command line - didn't have the patience to deal with yast -
> seemed like I was going to run into wizard helpers.
>
> Craig
>
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