Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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 ??

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread narendra sisodiya
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

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread shantanu goel
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. What I understand is that you can provide

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:22:18 Harish Pillay wrote: Just so that the perception is not perpetuated, Fedora is not a poor cousin of anything. It is the leading distribution that is completely free (both in libre and beer) and open to anyone to add. RHEL is downstream to Fedora. If

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
I have a question, Can I use Fedora 9 as a commercial use to develop software. ? Yes you can. Actually generally compaies buy Redhat. Do we any exmple for Free of cost or linux distro in companies ?? Yes we have. I work at a place which uses a mix of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora as their servers

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: 1. Imagine how a SOHO business would react when a small time solution provider pitches a solution based on Fedora and the client reads this: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/whichlinux/ So how does CentOS Compare with facts on that page then ?

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ref : At software list :- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing There are some packagse which are commercial restrictive. Searching for the word restrictive only gave me this: Note that any license change to a more

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
I am sorry, that time I have saw the pages clearly. there a words Commercial use restrictions against the package openmotif -- I think context is different. Let us be specific. Are those words still there? Do they contradict https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines or

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I am sorry, that time I have saw the pages clearly. there a words Commercial use restrictions against the package openmotif -- I think context is different. Let us be specific. Are those words still there? Do they

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread Debarshi Ray
So lets suppose tomorrow they(fedora guys or in some other distro) pack any package which has Commercial use restrictions -- Will I be able to develop my application and sell it out. No need to suppose such a thing. The packaging guidelines DO NOT ALLOW such things to be a part of Fedora. Full

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Debarshi Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Do yourself a favour and learn to write some sane English. Cheerio, Debarshi Ok Boss, I trying to do this favour on me from last 3 years. I know i am not good at my written English skills specially at spellings. --

[ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-08 Thread narendra sisodiya
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

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-08 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 08 Sep 2008, 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

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-08 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
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