Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>But surly if I'm 
only offering the basic distro, it is up to my
>customer to pay for any 
non-free software, right?
>
>Of course all Linux distro allow you to 
install non-free software,
>however it's ok for my customers to do it, 
isn't it?
That depends on the terms of the contract between you and your 
customer.
I you are renting them a base "free only" VM then it would 
be
reasonable to make it a contract term that the customers deals 
with
licensing for any software he installs on 
it.
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This sounds fair enough. 
 
Are you aware of any software which would cause 
problems in this area? For example, they would be allowed to install Oracle or 
MYSQL on a rented VM, provided they were in control of it, right?
 
As for the "free only" base image, that would just be 
a standard PV install of Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS, right?
 
Thanks