On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:42, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Vincent wrote: > > If your company > > cannot afford $120 a year for updates then distribute those from scripting > > or an in-house up2date server, id say that business has bigger problems than updates. > > If you have e.g. 50 servers and 50 workstations, the bill jumps up to > 12000$/yr. Not an inconsiderable amount. It'd be stupid to assume > Progeny would not require some kind of agreement that disallows > registering just one computer, and distributing the updates in-house. But then the license on the individual packages may prevent that. For example if they are GPL or LGPL, you cannot put any restrictions on re-distribution. Also they cannot legally keep the source code modifications of the security patches secret. Warren
