[ILUG-BOM] Re: Open SUSE 10.2 Disks Required
Manoj Srivastava
srivasta@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sat Jan 20 11:57:29 IST 2007
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:23:25 +0530, jtd
<jtd at mtnl.net.in> said:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 15:41, Harsh Busa wrote:
>> can somebody compare eula from other linux based os vendors ?
> The licence says it all. Contrast the above
> with this http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
I would like to draw attention to one distinction: the social
contract governs Debian, and not the end users; Debian does not have
an end user license agreement.
The debian installer, and the cd's created, have a regular GPL
license, but I doubt that can be called an EULA in the sense that
SUSE/Red Hat impose on their end users.
While I shan't get into the religious jihads of whose distro
is bigger; I am compelled to note that Debian is a fundamentally
different beastie when it comes to freedom issues (which may or may
not be a good thing, depending on your perspective).
manoj
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