OpenSUSE gets more open

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 17, 2008 10:55 PM CST
Computerworld; By Jon Brodkin 		Mail this story
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Novell Inc.'s openSUSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, as well as a build service that will encourage more contributions from open-source developers. OpenSUSE previously used a standard user license agreement and contained some proprietary software -- namely Adobe Acrobat and Sun Java -- that made it difficult to redistribute the open-source software, says Joe Brockmeier, Novell's openSUSE community manager. OpenSUSE 11.1, the release that will be announced Thursday, modifies the license to eliminate some of the legal headaches and removes the proprietary software, which now must be downloaded separately.

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Might be related reason(s) for all this vainrveenr 0 937 Dec 19, 2008 1:54 AM

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