LWN reported YAST going GPL as well

LWN reported YAST going GPL as well

Posted Apr 22, 2004 16:56 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: Major complaint against Yast is the non-free license by vmlinuz
Parent article: Review of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional

That YAST was going GPL was reported here on LWN as well, and I was rather
disappointed that it wasn't mentioned in the review as "one change free
software enthusiasts will like", or some such. SuSE wasn't even an option
for me before, because if I wanted non-libre I wouldn't have dumped a
decade on MSWormOS to switch to Linux, but I'm happy to say I can rethink
my options now, and might indeed do SuSE. (Unfortunately, I believe they
still box several proprietaryware apps, including that German financial
software that was mentioned.)

Duncan

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