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- Your Company decides to use Redhat-EL, Fedora or Suse as a basis to build and sell your company's new widgets
- What do you need to do to comply with the various (incompatible) licenses
- Redhat's End User License, GPL and variations
- Does your company need to release the source code your software changes
- Does the various licenses allow end users to reverse engineer your hw and sw
- For each application, possibly 5,000 - 20,000 packages installed on the disk ( your widgets ), what are it's licenses that allows you to distribute it
- Does your company need to release the GPL source codes
- Can you release binary only application code for your widgets
- How do you separate your Company's widgets (source code) from the rest of the (MUST be released at no charge) GPL source code
- How do you prevent others from using your widgets to make their derivative commercial products
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