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Re: [Xen-users] Xen License
greno@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This sounds like more Microsoft-reseller scaremongering. But you do
need to be aware of the licenses for any software that you intend to
sell/offer/provide/support for your customers. A lot of distros are
GPL / BSD / etc. and some are commercial offerings such as RedHat /
Suse. If you want someone backing you up, it can often pay to use a
commercial offering.
Even Debian (which takes a very 'pure' view of things either being
free and open - or not in Debian) has the option of installing
non-free components. That isn't enabled by default, but they are
there.
If software is under GPL or BSD, then no-one can stop you offering a
service based from it, stop you charging for that service, or charge
you for the priviledge. But there are non-free elements in some
distros (or other bits you get from elsewhere) that you may need to
be aware of - and for some of those (Fraunhofer and MP3 come to mind)
a fee may be payable to a third party for a patent licence).
But that's a far cry from the implied threat that started this thread
- which sounded very much like an MS droid claiming that MS needs
their tax before it's legal to run Linux.
--
Simon Hobson
Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed
author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as
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