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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 26th Nov 2008 20:53 UTC

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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by trenchsol on Thu 27th Nov 2008 17:55 UTC

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2006-12-07

The reason I've chosen SUSE is that it does not bother me with "free" and "non-free" too much. It was good to have true SUN Java JDK, Flash and Acrobat out of the box. Now it is gone.

I don't have emotional relationship with my system, I use it as a tool. Now, the tool has become less useful.

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RE: bad

by KugelKurt on Thu 27th Nov 2008 19:50 in reply to "bad"

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2005-07-06

Those will still be in the repos. It's just that the ISO images won't bundle them.

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RE[2]: bad

by sultanqasim on Fri 28th Nov 2008 02:03 in reply to "RE: bad"

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2006-10-28

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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