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
18 years 27 weeks 19 hours 17 min ago
Elive is not free software.
Elive is not free software.
spikeb
18 years 27 weeks 14 hours 41 min ago
how so?
how so?
antiprophet
18 years 27 weeks 14 hours 7 min 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
18 years 27 weeks 11 hours 24 min ago
requiring payment doesn't make
requiring payment doesn't make something non-free
Starchild
18 years 27 weeks 3 hours 50 min 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).