Re: Licenses for 10.2?

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Paul J Gans <gans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:-

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The license is what I thought it was, a compilation license.
The important point for us is contained in the paragraph:

An important part for everyone is in that paragraph. As a private
person, most of it doesn't apply. As an organisation, it does. If you
read it, it states that you can make as many copies as you wish for use
by your organisation. This means that you can make a copy for every
machine, in every department, within the organisation. What you can't do
is make a copy for a subsidiary. Someone in each subsidiary has to
either buy, or download, a copy of their own.

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A commercial organization or corporation will doubtless have to
read more.

In theory, everyone should read the entire thing. In practice, most
don't.

Thanks for posting a license URL. I hope folks learn from this.

Some will, others won't. Still others will base their trolling on a
misrepresentation of what's there.

We are here to push Linux,

We are? I thought the advocacy groups was to push Linux. This is more of
a self-help group with fairly diverse members of that community.

not to insult people.

Is it really an insult to call a troll a troll?


Regards,
David Bolt

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