RE: [Plug] seen the caldera screnshots?

["Jason M. Lenthe" <lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu>]

I did some investigation.   From the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 End User License
agreement:

<snip, opening legal stuff>

(a) "Caldera Systems Software" consists of the following computer programs: 

      1. Lizard Install System 

<snip, other "Caldera System Software" and other legal stuff>

Caldera Systems (or its licensor, if applicable) owns the copyrights and
intellectual property in and to each item of Caldera Systems Software.

<snip, lots a giberish>

4. License of Caldera Systems Software. 

      Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, Caldera Systems
grants to
      Licensee a nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the Caldera
Systems
      Software on a single computer (the "License"). Use of the Caldera
Systems Software
      on additional computers requires the purchase of additional licenses
from Caldera
      Systems at Caldera Systems's then-current prices. Rights to Caldera
Systems
      Software not expressly granted to Licensee in this Agreement are
reserved by
      Caldera Systems. 

<snip, rest of document>

Sure sounds like proprietary software to me.  I guess the QPL is like the
LGPL in that you can write software that uses the library and doesn't have
to be free, even though the library software itself is free.  Its kind of
ironic that "OpenLinux" would have a proprietary installer.  Although
Caldera seems like a good deal for a newbie wanting ease of installation
and Wordperfect, all for 50 beans.

Jason

At 10:44 AM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>They wrote the installation in Qt.  I remeber reading an article on it
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason M. Lenthe [mailto:lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu]
>Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 10:09 AM
>To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
>Subject: Re: [Plug] seen the caldera screnshots?
>
>
>Don't hold me to it, but I think the Caldera installer is proprietary.
>
>At 09:07 AM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>http://www.troll.no/announce/lizardshots.html
>>
>>My question is the code for thsi GPL'd?  Will projects like debian be able
>>to take this code and create their own installation system from it?  Or
>>is this something that Caldera is keeping as closed source?
>>
>>Does anyone know about caldera's product?
>>
>>k



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