Legality of Fedora in production environment
Nicu Buculei
nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Fri May 11 13:35:06 UTC 2007
Randy Wyatt wrote:
> Why wouldn't a hard copy of the GPL suffice ?
Because such laws are usually made by direct command from BSA and
contain specific wording.
I heard some similar scary things about a law in my country (Romania)
where exist a national registry for computer programs and you are
supposed to use only software registered there. I don't know much about
it as I am not an expert in law, but it seems the law is ignored by
users and not enforced against free software (so far).
> On 5/11/07, *Dmitry Butskoy* <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
> <mailto:buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru>> 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.
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