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Article #43Re: Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?
From: Tony Houghton
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:52
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:52
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On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:13:31 GMT catchme <someone@somewhere.net> wrote: > it would appear that doing so would be a violation of the linux > distributions released under the gnu agreement that stipulate there > should be no charge for such releases. There's no such stipulation AFAIK. You can charge as much as you like to provide someone with GNU software as long as the source code is available and you don't prevent your customers from redistributing it. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
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