Novell may not be "violating" the letter of the GPLv2, but they have admitted in their press releases that they went out of their way to circumvent it. In my mind, that is ethically no different than violating it, and shows that they have no respect for the GPL.  Thus Novell is now firmly in the Evil column and should be shunned.

I was quite happy with SUSE, but now I've dumped it in favor of Debian Etch. (Who knew apt-get was so cool? ;)