Have a question about using Fedora14 for a university project and publishing the results

[Harikiran Enna]

Hi Fedora Team,

I am a student studying Masters in Computer Science at one of the
universities in Minnesota, USA. As part of a starred paper for the
university, I wanted to perform some oracle database performance tests on
fedora operating system.

For this purpose, I have downloaded Fedora 14 (free software from web ) and
installed my Oracle Database software for performing some performance
tests. I have included my test results in my paper with mention of using
Fedora 14 operating system.  My university may decide to publish the paper
and I would like to make sure that my university publishing my paper would
not conflict with Fedora 14 license agreement.

I have the following information in my system when I do "uname -a".

Linux hari 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Mon Oct 18 23:56:17 UTC 2010 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

your suggestions would be a great help.

Thanks,
Hari
612 876 5992

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,

[Sorry for double post, previously, I've only sent the answer to 
Harikiran and not to the list.]

I am quite sure there is no violation in that (but I'm not in any way 
authorized to decide that).

However I'm wondering, why you use such an old Fedora version, when 
Fedora 18 is the latest recent stable release.

Miro

Dne 14.5.2013 07:32, Harikiran Enna napsal(a):
> Hi Fedora Team,
>
> I am a student studying Masters in Computer Science at one of the
> universities in Minnesota, USA. As part of a starred paper for the
> university, I wanted to perform some oracle database performance tests
> on fedora operating system.
>
> For this purpose, I have downloaded Fedora 14 (free software from web )
> and installed my Oracle Database software for performing some
> performance tests. I have included my test results in my paper with
> mention of using Fedora 14 operating system.  My university may decide
> to publish the paper and I would like to make sure that my university
> publishing my paper would not conflict with Fedora 14 license agreement.
>
> I have the following information in my system when I do "uname -a".
>
> Linux hari 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Mon Oct 18 23:56:17 UTC 2010
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> your suggestions would be a great help.
>
> Thanks,
> Hari
> 612 876 5992
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[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 00:32 -0500, Harikiran Enna wrote:
> For this purpose, I have downloaded Fedora 14 (free software from web ) and
> installed my Oracle Database software for performing some performance
> tests. I have included my test results in my paper with mention of using
> Fedora 14 operating system.  My university may decide to publish the paper
> and I would like to make sure that my university publishing my paper would
> not conflict with Fedora 14 license agreement.

I can't imagine why or how the Fedora licence would prohibit such a
thing, but I did think that the default *Oracle* licence prohibited the
publication of "unofficial" benchmark results. I assume you've checked
that?