Just in time for openSUSE 11.1 RC 1, we’ve finished the new and improved license for openSUSE 11.1. The days of agreeing to a EULA for openSUSE are over!

The text of the new license is included on the wiki, but the highlights are:

>> Users no longer need to agree to the license. This is not a EULA, it’s a license notice. We want you to be aware of your rights as provided by the FOSS licenses, so we’ll display this notice but not require an agreement.

>> openSUSE is an aggregate work including many open source and free software packages. The aggregate work is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, individual packages are governed by their respective licenses.

>> The main DVD now includes only the software that we can redistribute freely and that you can redistribute freely.

We want to make sure that openSUSE is the easiest Linux to obtain and use — and a big chunk of that is licensing. We now have a license that presents no obstacle to redistribution, and no obstacle for modification.

We are also working on trademark guidelines that clarify how and when the openSUSE marks can be used, and we’ll be releasing those shortly.

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