A review showing that out-of-the-box capabilities of the recently released Elive 1.0. Elive has been touted as one of the prettiest distributions available, but how does it stack up?
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Starchild
16 years 39 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago
Elive is not free software.
Elive is not free software.
spikeb
16 years 39 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago
how so?
how so?
antiprophet
16 years 39 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
It is unfortunate that the creator
It is unfortunate that the creator of the distribution does require a donation for download. That being said, you can find mirrors where you can download it for free.
spikeb
16 years 39 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
requiring payment doesn't make
requiring payment doesn't make something non-free
Starchild
16 years 39 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago
Please take a look at the license:
Please take a look at the license:
http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Help/License/
Using Elive for commercial purposes is forbidden. That makes it non-free software. I believe it would also fail to pass the open source definition as it forbids free redistribution (Criteria 1) and discriminates between fields of endeavor (Criteria 6).