From: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein) Subject: Re: Copyright Date: 27 Oct 1992 15:27:19 GMT
> In article <seu14eS00j5uAS9XdF@andrew.cmu.edu> sh2v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen
> Hathorne) writes:
> Can anyone tell me a little more about the copyright involved with linux?
> I am working on an application, and wish to use linux as the operating
> system, (this will save my client about $500)
>
> Linux is copyrighted. To be more precise, it is copylefted. It can be used
> and distributed free, even in commercial applications as yours. The only
> real restriction is that you must make the source code (to Linux, it's
> utilities etc.) available to your client.
>
> I do not intend to charge for the operating system, but I do intend to
> charge for the application, and support.
>
> Is this reasonable, or should I be looking at SCO?
>
> This seems to be okay and in accordance to the GNU Copyleft, at least to me.
> Just remember to give the source of Linux to your client too, or state where
> the client can get it, if it wants.
>
> Is this going to be the first commercial application of Linux? Even before
> version 1.0! I am amazed!
>
> Pauli
> --
> Disclaimer fault - lawyers dumped
We've been operational in a commercial environment with Linux since about
the first of August. In fact I posted a note about this to the Linux
mailing list. I shutdown one of the machines last week to upgrade the
kernel, it had been up 47 days without a reboot or error. Near as we can
tell it ran about 250,000 processes during that time period. We have
another machine that has been up around 54 days non-stop. Amazing little
operating system.
As always,
Dr. G.W. Wettstein
Oncology Research Division Computing Facility
Fargo Clinic / MeritCare
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