Debian License agreement

Hi everybody, I fear that it is sound stupid but I wonder does such thing like Debian EULA exit? FC, for example, has EULA (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/EULA) The reason I asked this question is authorities here in Russia may require license agreement to entire system used

Re: Debian License agreement

On Saturday 24 March 2007 22:55, Don Armstrong wrote: > Surely this only applies to people who are selling stuff rather than > giving it away? It applies to people that use debian in business/education/etc. :( > As far as an overall license, there isn't one, but we try to make sure > that wor

Re: Debian License agreement

On Saturday 24 March 2007 22:53, you wrote: > find /usr/share/doc -name copyright|xargs tar czf I_Love_Russia.tar.gz > > That gives the Russian authorities something to read. :) Sad point is it must be translated (at least unofficial translation) into Russian! :( -- Vsevolod -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Debian License agreement

Hi Bas. > You wrote: > > I fear that it is sound stupid but I wonder does such thing like Debian > > EULA exit? FC, for example, has EULA > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/EULA) > > Well, in a sense the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] are a Debian > "EULA". It is close, b

Re: Debian License agreement

On Sunday 25 March 2007 00:21, Steve Langasek wrote: > There is no EULA for Debian because an EULA is a license which *restricts* > what the user is allowed to do with his own copy of the software. We place > no restrictions on the use of the software and require that our upstreams > don't do so

Re: Debian License agreement

On Sunday 25 March 2007 04:37, Ben Finney wrote: > > EULA must say "yes, Debian really consists only of such software > > which not restrict any party from using, selling or giving away the > > software" etc etc > > There is no warranty on anything in Debian, because Debian is licensed > freel

Re: Debian License agreement

On Monday 26 March 2007 22:20, Florian Weimer wrote: > Copyrighted works redistributable under permissive licenses are a > tough problem for law enforcement world-wide, not just Russian > authorities. 8-( > > /article7332