From: Orlando Andico <orly@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph>
> say I make my own Linux distribution, e.g. Orlando's
>Magnificent Linux,
Good for you :-)
>and I put a precompiled binary of my app as one of the
>packages Now naturally, being a Linux distribution maintainer,
>I charge for this. This is common practice for most commercial
>Linux vendors.
> Does the XForms program I included as one of the packages count as
>"commercial" software and so I have to come to an monetary arrangement
>with Dr Zhao?
If you charge for the CD, not specifically for xforms,
it is not considered commercial and you don't have to have a
special license, just let me know you're distributing xforms
on your CD (Redhat, Debian and others do this already).
What this means is that your customers can freely run any applications
on the CD that require xforms, but not permitted to
develop commercial programs with it. If, however,
your application is only available on the CD, and
not otherwise publically avaialble, this changes things
a bit.
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