Re: ivan

[Robert Ribnitz <robert.ribnitz@unifr.ch>]

iban wrote:

> Hi 
> my questions is about licences or something like that i hope this is the
> correct e-mail if it is not, could you tell me what is??
> this is my question
> we are a new shop and we want to sell computers on any Linux OS
> pre-installed, in our region if an enterprise buys a PC with the licence
> of a OS the government gives it some money, and i want to know if there
> is any way to get any document that verify that debian OS is register
> buy our customer o something like that, i mean the copy is legal
> i hope i have explain well
> sorry for my english
> thanks
Hello "iban",

by what you write, it is hard to tell what you need, but I'll try 
nevertheless. (If you want more info, pleae tell us what region in the 
world you are referring to, debian developers are quite widespread, and 
there are quite a few mailing lists in non-english languages 
(debian-user-xx)

SO to resume your request:

- you are a small/mid-sized company that sell PCs with a preinstalled 
Gnu/Linux
- your government funds such PCs (with a preinstalled Linux) if you can 
prove there's a
Linux on it

Now comes the problematic part:

As I understood, there's no 'illegally installed Debian', its license 
gives you the right to install Debian on as many machines as you want,
for whatever you charge for that service.

If there's really debian on that machine, a file /etc/debian_version 
will exist, and contain version info of the installed debian. But It 
contains no serial number, or other (unique) identifier, because debian 
does not use them.

So if you want to provide your customer with some 'registration info', 
you could do it on a form:


Please Fax back to  (Company name)

Some contact details

Number of pc's installed ____________

With my signature I certify that there are the number of PC's installed 
with Linux in our company, which we obtained from
(Company Name), who also does the support & service for them.


yours

Robert Ribnitz