Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
I remember clearly they had to provide it on a separated, non-downloadable CD. There was other softwares on that CD too, that was not the issue. The main point is that they could not provide the ISO for download.
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
So that's the same thing RedHat is doing with the application disk.
Yep, Red Hat and only select others really strive to do keep the 100% redistributable components separate from the non-redistributable components.
It seems Novell does want to do this with SuSE, but as of even OpenSuSE 10.0 (as I've seen it), they have not yet (please correct me if I'm wrong, and 9.3 was the last release that didn't).
Debian has always excelled at marketing everything. But don't confuse their _official_ repository "NON-FREE" category with non-Debian, additional repositories that add stuff to the "NON-FREE" category.