New covenant published

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 23 19:29:49 UTC 2009


On 12/24/2009 12:52 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> 
> It grants no patent rights to Distributors, aside from those already
> granted to Novell in the previous covenant. What it practically means is
> that once you distribute, you stop being considered an "End User" by
> Microsoft, and are no longer protected by this "covenant" (unless you're
> Novell or Microsoft).

This means, when you copy SUSE CD and give it a friend, you are not
covered under this covenant either? That's... interesting.

Rahul




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