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Originally posted by doodydood24
mikshaw... can you please give me some examples of such licenses and .. and name a few examples of such ditributions along with some programs which is not exacly.. GPL.. and create complications with such 'copying' ?
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Well, we can go with what I know best...SuSE:
To begin with, YaST is proprietary software (in version 9.0 and earlier), so that in itself prevents unauthorized reselling of a SuSE distribution.
SuSE also contains commercial (shareware) applications...VMware and Main Actor come to mind, though I think vmware was removed recently.
There are also other non-GPL applications included, though I haven't checked their licenses...I'm assuming most are still open source.
I don't believe simply copying/redistributing would be an issue, but reselling may get you a stern email or two.