[wellylug] Mandrake Donation to WLUG

Don Jones don.jones at linuxmail.org
Mon Oct 29 09:29:21 NZDT 2001


> >  It also
> > needs be labelled that it can be copied with impunity, but under the GNU
> > rules.
> 
> I don't know much about Mandrake in particular, but make very sure that
> that is true before you label it. Remember that the distribution itself
> may have different copyright from the software that makes it up, and
> that there are no packages on there under a different license.
> 
> Richard

Based on the Licence information you are asked to agree to when installing mandrake, I think all software included in the distro is GPL or public domain/freely distributable (ie BSD MIT mozilla style licences etc.) Thus you are free to copy and redistribute it. Unless the bought copy has a different licence from the downloadable version I think we should be safe in assuming we can copy it freely. Pointing this out on the box at the library will be a good way to highlight the benifits of the the GPL and software released under it.

Don 
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