[ILUG] SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional Edition

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rory Browne (rory.browne at gmail.com):

> The jury is still out on whether or the copying of DVD's is legal, due
> to the presence of allegedly non-redistributable packages.
> 
> Probably the safest option would be to borrow a copy, install it
> without installing Acroread, Moneyplex, RealPlayer,  or Opera, and
> then give back the CDs/DVD.

Well, if you're serious about identifying _all_ the non-redistributable 
packages, you might want to investigate this list one gets by doing 
"wget --mirror" on 
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/index_all.html        
and then grepping the resulting retrieved tree of small HTML
package-information files for "Commercial" as the licence type -- which
SUSE term seems to correlate with restrictive licensing lacking
redistribution rights:

acroread.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
agfa-fonts.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
avmailgate.html:      Commercial
avm_fcdsl.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
avmfritzcapi.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
bitstream-vera.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
cop-track.html*:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
flash-player.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
intel-536ep.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
ipw-firmware.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
iscan.html:      GPL, Commercial
km_fcdsl.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
km_fritzcapi.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
km_smartlink-softmodem.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
ltmodem.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
mainactor-5.html:      Commercial
moneyplex.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
novell-ifolder-client.html*:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
opera.html:      Commercial
planmaker.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
realplayer.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
sesam_srv.html:      Commercial
smartlink-softmodem.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
textmaker.html:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package
ttf-founder-simplified.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
ttf-founder-traditional.html:      Other License(s), see package, Commercial
wnn-sdk.html*:      Commercial, Other License(s), see package

As I said, I cited the four packages I did -- and confirmed them to be
problematic in 9.1 -- because they stood out as being likely problems,
since I _knew_ that their publishers don't allow public redistribution.

*Asterisks signify packages present on the DVD only, not the CDs, according to:
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/diff_cd_dvd.html