On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 12:21:18 narendra sisodiya wrote: > > I have a question, Can I use Fedora 9 as a commercial use to develop > > software. ? > > has anybody studied its license policies ? > > Actually generally compaies buy Redhat. Do we any exmple for "Free of > > cost" or linux distro in companies ?? > > > > Ref : At software list :- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing > > There are some packagse which are commercial restrictive. removing > > package will solve the problem. > > Explain "commercial use to develop software". > Developing softwares which can be saled out for money, Actually my company use RHEL (some old version) , I wanted to have Fedora on my box so i was asking so,, Anyway they have refused the my idea and I have to work on RHEL > > - Are you trying to use that as your development platform? None of the > linux distros stop you from doing that. > > - Are you planning to package your software along with a distro to your > clients? Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu,Gentoo all allow you to do that. > Thanks for this info, But, I was having impression that , "you can not attach a GPL packages with your peice of code for which will be shiped as binary blobs, you have to open your source code also .. As per my knowledge , you can use LGPL in that case. > Not too many people understand the distribution legalities of Redhat > Linux completely. *My* interpretation is that while it is the RHN > services which cost money and as per the licence of the software on the > CDs, you are free to copy and distribute them, ... there are some > trademark issues that you have to worry about if you intend to > distribute Redhat Linux along with your software. Redhat's > (intentional?) lack of clarification in this regard makes the distro a > no-no for any commercial software+Redhat Linux bundle in my book. If > someone really wants to provide it to their clients, it is safer to ask > the client to purchase a copy and install your software from an > installer. > > OTOH, I would strongly recommend Ubuntu for such uses. It is as stable > as Fedora, commercial support is available if any of your clients want > it but not tied in, unlike Fedora it is not promoted as a poor cousin > by its primary sponsor, and long term support releases are available to > assure stability to your clients. > > - Sandip > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- ┌───[ Narendra Sisodiya ]──────────────┐ │ │ http://narendra.techfandu.org │ http://www.lug-iitd.org │ └────────────[ +91-93790-75930 ]──────┘ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
