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Does the license prevent people from downloading and distributing it explicitly? Curious what is going on there. I wonder if one could sell a USB configured to
by ada1981 9y ago
Does the license prevent people from downloading and distributing it explicitly? Curious what is going on there.
I wonder if one could sell a USB configured to simply connect to the internet and download the software automatically.
- gowld 9y agoThe discs exist because they work on broken computers. A USB downloader would be useless for the tech-unsavvy customers of the CD
- AckSyn 9y agoIf the USB drive booted to an internet based restore method, this would work the same as the CD but instead of the CD "pirating" windows (it wasn't), it would grab the iso from MS or dell directly (possible).
- PeterisP 9y agoIf the licence doesn't explicitly permit downloading and redistributing copies, then that's illegal. The default position of copyright law is that it's forbidden with some exceptions (depending on jurisdiction) for personal use and such. I can download Ubuntu, burn it to CDs and sell or give them to others because GPL explicitly permits me to do this. However, downloading the comment you just made, filling a CD with copies of it, and selling or giving it to others would violate your copyright to it.
- ada1981 9y agoThank you. I’ll release my previous comment to the public domain if you’d like to distribute it.