Legality of Fedora in production environment

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Fri May 11 14:58:24 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> The Fedora wiki pages link to a list of all approved licenses for
> packages.  You could systematically go through and print off each of
> these.
>
>   
In general, some of packages can have its unique licenses, which 
compatible with Fedora, but have its own text...

> It's a bit hard for Fedora to distribute hard copy material given that
> Fedora doesn't distribute anything physical.
>   

But it is more hard for individual user to print, translate and certify.

Moreover, there are enough troubles with "Fedora in production 
environment" due to innovations/stabilities. An addition of legal issues 
can just kill it.
Theoretically, it can lead to a situation, when RHEL, based on Fedora as 
the upstream, will be based on distro which actually is not used/tested 
anywhere in business/production.


~buc




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