[ILUG] licenses & selling openoffice & RH 8.0

[Dermot Daly]

www.celticlinux.ie basically do what you are syaing below.  They take
the downloads available, burn them and basically sell them for thr price
of the media plus a little for their trouble (afaik).  Note that with
GPL, source must be included, but if you are taking proper images from
RH website, etc. I would guess that you are ok.

I'm not qualified to give you the answer to this mind you.

Cheers,
Dermot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Bedford [mailto:lbedford at lbedford.org] 
Sent: 29 October 2002 08:29
To: Irish Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] licenses & selling openoffice & RH 8.0


On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:27:34 +0000
Gavin McCullagh <ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie> blurted in message
20021028172734.GA26899 at fiachra.ucd.ie:

> Hi,
> 
> I've a fundraising sale event coming up.  We frequently look for 
> things to sell that are useful, novel, etc.  I have previously thought

> to burn CDs of useful software and sell them, but only really decided 
> it's worth it this year.  My immediate thoughts are:
> 
> * OpenOffice.org v1.01 binaries for linux/win32
> * Mozilla binaries for linux/win32
> * RedHat 8.0 (with absolutely no support!)
> 
I think you need to check the RedHat licenses... you could talk to 
the people who run www.linuxemporium.co.uk. The gist of it was that you
can't sell CD's with RedHat on them, and call it RedHat, unless it's the
official redhat box set. Otherwise you have to call it something else,
so they don't think it's official.

L.
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