I want to know that I have my own company for web designing now can I use opensuse for making websites on nvu or anything else? Is there any Licence which my company have to buy for using opensuse?
or my company can use opensuse without any objection.
Kindly reply otherwisw I have to buy windows licence.
THANK YOU.
kartik3958 wrote:
> I want to know that I have my own company for web designing now can I
> use opensuse for making websites on nvu or anything else? Is there any
> Licence which my company have to buy for using opensuse?
> or my company can use opensuse without any objection.
> Kindly reply otherwisw I have to buy windows licence.
welcome…
openSUSE is free (no cost)…
you may download the system from http://software.opensuse.org/112/
but, please read and understand the steps to take for success which
are outlined and linked to from “Download Help” at
http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help
the free download includes the only license you need to operate the
system on as many computers as you wish…and, you may freely share
the openSUSE install media with everyone you know–legally!
by the way, i have zero Windows software on my computer.
Have a lot of fun!
–
palladium
Bear in mind that some of the software you can use with openSUSE is proprietary and you may need to have a licence for that but, as palladium says, you should be able to find all you need for web design without using proprietary software.
Please check the GPL and LGPL licences. Google will find them for you.
I have a web development company and a computer repair store i have been in w/dev for over 10 years and i have been running SUSE i also have a system using flash 4 for linux and i am using dreamweaver on linux as well. you can use it freely and i run other software as well, have fun!
@TKS1125: The question of the OP was:
can I use opensuse for … (snip) … anything else?
Here the answer is NO. You can’t make proprietary software linking to GPL’d code. This is the limitation we have. However you can link with libraries under LGPL. This is why the original poster should study the appropriate licences. He is the only one who knows what he is intending to do.
For my previous post i apoligize for a mis leading post , you can use suse but as far as dreamweaver (no) i have licensing for all of my windows software, but to run open source it is free, all of my macromedia products i had to purchase them. i run them using open suse using crossover office i do this for special needs i use qaunta and open office for all of my linux only web products. ( please remember to make sure your software is registered,as far as windows is concerned. i am working on a dreamweaver for linux project but it will be a while before it is out .
Come on, the (snip) makes it pretty misleading.
To the OP:
No need to buy a license for openSUSE if you want to run it as an OS in your company.
Do you need to buy a license or nvu? Maybe, never used it. Check their licensing.
Do you need to buy a license for “anything else”? Maybe. Check anything else’s licensing 
That’s the situation if you want to use openSUSE as a “vehicle” for your products. If you want to include any of the code in openSUSE in your products, that’s a different beast; as others said, study the GPL or whatever license that very part of code uses. But you sounded like you just wanted to make some web pages for your customers; in this case you’re fine 
Uwe
buckesfeld pretty much summed it up already.
But to reinforce it once more, yes you’re free to commercially use openSUSE within your company. No need to contact Novell or purchase anything.
Download it, deploy it, all perfectly legal and completely free.
NVU to the best of my knowledge is horribly outdated and a pain to work with.
If you have the hardware for it (wouldn’t try this with <1GB RAM) you might want to use Aptana Studio which is also free for commercial use.
If you’re working with older hardware bluefish might be a better option.
Do keep in mind however that 99% of people interested in a site expect it to work in Internet Explorer, and there is no way of testing your site reliably without purchasing a Windows License. There also doesn’t seem to be much for flash creation under Linux so if you have customers that want a flash banner/site/whatever you might want to consider Windows for that as well.