On 2005-02-04 07:34 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm new to linux kindly please help me how to explain a copyright and > distribution of linux?
There is plenty of information on this on the web, so for more elaborative answers I strongly suggest that you pay Google a visit. Also, it's rather unclear what exactly you are referring to - "Linux" the kernel, or GNU/Linux the operating system with all the utilities. As has been pointed out many times in many different places, Linux all on its own is pretty much useless. You want to have applications that will get the system into a usable state (that's init, mostly), a shell, tools to work with the file system (cd, mkdir, ls, cat, etc.) and maybe even applications that actually let you do your work. > Who has the copyright? For the most part, whoever wrote the code. Some organizations (the FSF comes to mind) encourage contributors to give them the rights, but I can't think of anyone in the free software community that demands it. > Who can distribute the software? Well, anyone who has a copy of it. Now if you mean who can *legally* distribute it, that would be those who have the right to do so. > And what are the restriction of distribution? Laid out in the license agreement for each specific software package. -- Michael Kj�rling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -*- SM0YBY * To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
