On 03/04/05 12:26 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Devdas Bhagat wrote:
This depends on the particular contract you sign with the vendor.
Dear Devdas, by vendors I was refering to the services offered by software suppliers who only charge for copying and courier of any linux distro from their list, which includes names like Suse, Mandrake and more. If the multi-cd packs are a direct copy of the original *package*
This depends on the policy of the original vendor wrt the pack. If the first buyer is restrained from copying and selling the CDs as is, because they include copyrighted material/trademarks/whatever, then such redistribution is a violation of contract.
provided by the makers, then wouldn't its installation *as it is* be a violation of copyrights and thus a pirated one? If any company wants to use this *package* it would have to buy it.
In the case of distributions like Mandrake personal, Gentoo, or Fedora or ..., the copyright owner states that you can make unlimited copies of it without restriction provided that their credits and trademarks stay intact.
To illustrate, distribution of _RHEL_ by a non RH authorised vendor is illegal. However, distributing Fedora is perfectly legal.
I would check out the particular terms and conditions for that distribution.
Devdas Bhagat