Re: Legality of Fedora in production environment

[Randy Wyatt]

Why wouldn't a hard copy of the GPL suffice ?

On 5/11/07, Dmitry Butskoy <buc(a)odusz.so-cdu.ru&gt; wrote:
>  The using of software in business and production environment can be a
>  subject for legislative regulation. It can lead to some legal troubles
>  of using of distributions like Fedora.
>
>  Recently the appropriate laws in my country (Russia) have been
>  significantly toughened. Now the police can check for illegal software
>  usage by their own initiative (without request from the owner). The tax
>  inspection demands that software should be registered at accounts
>  departments.
>
>  During such a checking, the user is obliged now to show all hardcopy
>  license documents (with original signatures and stamps). But there are
>  no any such things for distros like Fedora, which have been just
>  downloaded from Internet, hence the user shows nothing. In this
>  situation the police *must* temporarily confiscate system blocks (up to
>  2 weeks) for further checking...
>  Certainly, after the checking period all hardware comes back, but such
>  troubles are not allowed for normal business.
>
>
>  Are there any similar troubles in other countries?
>
>  How it can be avoided?
>
>  Our local linux distributors recommend to not download from Internet,
>  but buy their box, which includes CDs accompanied with some license
>  facsimile paper (just to show polices at least "something").
>
>
>  Dmitry Butskoy,
>  Saint-Petersburg, Russia
>          Red Hat Certified Engineer 809003662809495
>          http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
>
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