openSUSE is adopting a new license which is based on the the license used by Fedora. The new license will be used for the release of openSUSE 11.1 . "Users no longer need to agree to the license. This is not an EULA, it's a license notice," says Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager. This is an effort make openSUSE easy to re-distribute and make modifications. To learn more about what is new in openSUSE 11.1 check out this review of the 11.1 beta4 release.
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Yes, but thats the case with nearly all distros. The point is that on SuSE, they used to be installed out of the box, elimating the (small) amount of additional effort put into making the system useful.
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Yes, but thats the case with nearly all distros. The point is that on SuSE, they used to be installed out of the box, elimating the (small) amount of additional effort put into making the system useful.