best site for Linux software?

[Jerry Feldman]

Actually the question was asked on the SuSE English list a few weeks ago, 
and they did say that it was legal. I have not been able to locate the 
specific mail message. 
http://lists2.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/

On 8 Apr 2002 at 15:41, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > You can come to the installfest and we might be able to burn you a copy of 
> > SuSE 7.3 (7 CDs). 
> 
> It's not legal to copy the SuSE CDs; although the software is GPL (well, 
> most of it), the distribution media are not. SuSE considers them 
> proprietary, and doesn't offer downloads of ISO images. (They do offer 
> downloads of a "live evaluation" system that runs directly from the CD.)
> 
> Besides, SuSE is in sort of the same situation as Red Hat right now; 8.0 
> is due later this month, and the current update list is rather long. On 
> the other hand, SuSE 8.0 will be using the brand new KDE 3.0 (released 
> on April 3) as its default GUI, so stability may be an issue.
> 
> 


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