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Can I Distribute This?

Posted by Cliff on from the traversing-the-legal-minefield dept.

erikharrison asks: "LormaLinux is one of several emerging desktop oriented Linux distros. It comes prepackaged with the Flash Plugin, Real Player, and Yahoo IM. Is this legal? The Flash EUL agreement does allow free redistribution, but only of the Mac and Windows version, I can't seem to find a EULA for Linux version of Real Player, and can't even find the Linux version of YIM to check for licence issues. Do these distros know something I don't? And if not, am I only going to cause grief if I go to the software OEM and ask for a redistributable licence for my own project?"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This will probably be the most constructive thread of the whole thing. :-)