Amit,
Right, i don't think how any vendor can stop us from re-distributing any distro of Gnu-Linux expecially since all are based on the GPl.
Red Hat is the cleanest of the lot while SuSE being the worst among packaging tons of Commercial applications on them.
Making these cd's part of an OS-FSF library should be 100% permissible unless certain legal departments wanna talk to me about the same.
Trevor
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:12, Amit Upadhyay wrote:
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 18/07/03 15:40 +0000, Amit Upadhyay wrote:
The CD images are copyrighted. You cannot sell those CDs. You have full right to redistribute the GPLed/BSD licensed content as per the license, but the right to distribute that particular image is not available.
As per what? I just checked both SuSE 8.2 and Mandrake 9.1, and cant locate any such term! In fact Mandrake's README.txt says:
The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 2003 MandrakeSoft S.A. and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by MandrakeSoft and Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING.
Where COPYING contains full text of GPL.
Similerly the only thing talking about copying in Suse 8.2 is the same full text of GPL COPYING file.
Am I missing something?