Seems like SuSE makes the following available. I am no lawyer nor do I
pretend to be, but the wording in thier license doesn't prevent you from
doing anything, but it does say that any change is not supported by
them. What did I miss?
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
rights."
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 15:52, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Derek Neighbors wrote:
>
> > I hope you can understand why developers of Free Software find this
> > irrating. They want to be able to take our hard work and bundle it with
> > their work and distribute it for money. However, they do not want us to
> > be able to bundle their work with our work and distribute it for money?
>
> That makes good sense to developers of GPL (and other licenses
> discouraging closed source derivatives) licensed code.
>
> But to developers who use the BSD (or Apache or MIT or X11 or XFree86)
> license it doesn't matter much, because their licensing allows products to
> be closed up and made proprietary (commonly for money). So they have the
> understanding that someone can take their good work.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.reedmedia.net/
>
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