On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > ok i got a question. What if Petaling Street put Linux on CDs? Is that > pirating? > I remembered some time ago the Ministry made a fool of itself when it > issued a warning to arrest and persecute those who pirate Linux based > software. Now i am thinking they re not so foolish after all (there is > hope). >
Absolutely not. The conditions of the licenses that cover (almost?) all Linux distributions explicitly allow copying and distributing the software. However, if the software is represented as something else, they're probably doing something immoral, if not illegal. >From several years ago, I remember reading about a local (here in KK) company that was putting a different name on a standard OpenOffice.org installation CD and selling it as their own product. That's certainly shady, but I'm not sure how it would have been handled in a court. I couldn't find any information about it just now, though. Related: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/kk-lug/agyaslLu0vs/discussion -- Ghodmode http://www.ghodmode.com/blog -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
