Jack wrote:
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:35 -0700, William H Lugg wrote:
How about this. I'mworking on a project for the Air Force that is planning on taking the SuSE distro, weeding out the stuff that isn't needed (games, office apps, etc.), adding our in-house developed app and DB and repackage it for distribution to various sites (Military bases) for use. The plan is to use YaST to do the installation of our app and DB as well as the standard stuff. Our current take is that we need to hold a purchased SuSE license for each site that will use the app. Is this correct? Note that we aren't looking for SuSE support for these distributed licenses and the users come to us for support.
Where could I go to get a warm and fuzzy on the correct approach from a legal perspective? I've looked at the GPL and some other info on the SuSE site, but have trouble getting past the legal mumbo jumbo.
You should to contact your local JAG office and have them research it. If any legal issues arise, it'll be their problem (initially) to deal with it.
I wonder if Catherine Bell can do some work for the Air Force? ;-)