-----Original Message----- From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jan 28, 2005 8:44 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Installing fedora at school
Danial Rehman wrote:
My school is thinking of installing linux on some of the computers, and were wondering if it's legal to use linux for non-private usage. I really didn't get what they meant but something about linux only beeing free if your going to install for yourself and not for a whole school or corporation or whatever.
So I'm wondering if it's allowed to get fedora for about 10 compters at my school the legal way. I always thought linux was free for everyone?
|Linux itself is free for everyone. Some distributions may additionally |include proprietary software that is not free for everyone, but Fedora |is not one of those distributions. You can install it on as many |machines as you like.
One of the things that I would like to point out is that FC is a BETA or testing product. I would not install it to a production or training environment. I would use a more stable distribution in such an environment, such as RHEL.
However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the distributions that cannot be installed on as many computers as you like. There are substantial discounts available for educational use, but it's not free.
CentOS (http://www.centos.org/) is a free clone of RHEL that's worth looking at.
Paul.
