On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:04, dyzelinis wrote: > I think I have to explain what I want to do. > > Actually I don't want to sell it. I want to buy it! And I am looking for > someone to sell it to me. I can not just have it for free. It may sound a > little bit tricky, but there is same tricky law in my country. Our government > has some kind of compensations for those who by OS. Some kind of anti-piracy > compaign. > > This compensation is ment primarily for MS Windows, but I am going to install > FC3 on my new PC. So I want to know is it legal for some company to sell Fedora > to me for the price it wants? Can this price be as big as $100? So the amount > of maney that usualy goes to MS will go to me :) Read the GPL which specifically answers this question. You're allowed to re-distribute the software for a "reasonable fee". You can argue back-and-forth whether US$100 is appropriate for such or whether it should rather be in the range of US$10. But if, especially in your country, there's a certain legal obligation or risk by the seller, then I'd suspect US$100 being quite reasonable. HaJo -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
