Installing fedora at school
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 16:23:06 UTC 2005
Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:37 +0100, Danial Rehman wrote:
>
>>My school is thinking of installing linux on some of the computers,
>>and were wondering if it's legal to use linux for non-private usage. I
>>really didn't get what they meant but something about linux only
>>beeing free if your going to install for yourself and not for a whole
>>school or corporation or whatever.
>>
>>So I'm wondering if it's allowed to get fedora for about 10 compters
>>at my school the legal way.
>>I always thought linux was free for everyone?
>
> ----
> free as in speech AND free as in beer
>
> Fedora information can be found at:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/
>
> License info can generally be found here:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/licenses/
>
> Specific End User License Agreement for Fedora Core:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/licenses/eula.html
>
> There are trademark and other restrictions if you plan on 'repackaging'
> for other purposes and or selling it - mostly GNU type restrictions.
>
> But specifically to answer your question, you may install on as many of
> your school (or corporate) computers as you wish.
>
> Craig
>
I'll second the above.
I quote the relevant text of the Fedora Core license:
"2. Intellectual Property Rights. The Software and each of its
components, including the source code, documentation, appearance,
structure and organization are copyrighted by Fedora Project and others
and are protected under copyright and other laws. Title to the Software
and any component, or to any copy, modification, or merged portion shall
remain with the aforementioned, subject to the applicable license. The
“Fedora” trademark is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. (“Red Hat”) in the
U.S. and other countries and is used by permission. This agreement
permits User to distribute unmodified copies of Software using the
Fedora trademark on the condition that User follows Red Hat's trademark
guidelines located at http://fedora.redhat.com/legal/. User must abide
by these trademark guidelines when distributing the Software, regardless
of whether the Software has been modified. If User modifies the
Software, then User must replace all images containing the “Fedora”
trademark. Those images are found in the anaconda-images and the
fedora-logos packages. Merely deleting these files may corrupt the
Software."
Note carefully: "This agreement permits User to distribute unmodified
copies of Software using the Fedora trademark on the condition that User
follows Red Hat's trademark guidelines." If you're not going to modify
Fedora Core--and it doesn't sound as though you're trying to build a new
distro--then you can install on however many computers you own or are
otherwise responsible for, in any setting whatever.
I have never run across a distro that requires a "per-seat" license fee.
In fact, Linux does not distribute for a /license/ fee at all--but only
for a one-shot donative or a subscription fee for either regular updates
or technical support or both. Such agreements cover every single
computer that the end user is responsible for. Even RHEL, as expensive
as it is, charges a fee /per site/ and not per seat.
Fedora Core charges no fees at all. That's because technical support is
by volunteers, and they're on this list (or should be).
What kind of school are you running? Does it by any chance teach
/advanced/ computer science? If so, did you think about setting up a
user's group to deal with technical issues? The more brains, the merrier.
Temlakos
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