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RE: [Xen-users] Xen License

To: "Simon Hobson" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen License
From: "Jonathan Tripathy" <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:46:28 +0100
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Jonathan Tripathy wrote:

>But surly if I'm only offering the basic distro, it is up to my
>customer to pay for any non-free software, right?
>
>Of course all Linux distro allow you to install non-free software,
>however it's ok for my customers to do it, isn't it?

That depends on the terms of the contract between you and your customer.

I you are renting them a base "free only" VM then it would be
reasonable to make it a contract term that the customers deals with
licensing for any software he installs on it.

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This sounds fair enough.
 
Are you aware of any software which would cause problems in this area? For example, they would be allowed to install Oracle or MYSQL on a rented VM, provided they were in control of it, right?
 
As for the "free only" base image, that would just be a standard PV install of Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS, right?
 
Thanks
 
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