Tell the organization whether ubuntu is free and if you need any documents for inspection bodies.

  • It is free, or rather the license explicitly allows it to be received free of charge, as well as for money. There are no restrictions if you buy it from someone for $ 1000 apiece - this will not be a violation of the license, will not be a violation of the license and the subsequent resale or transfer for free, including the purchased option. But how in practice is it resolved and carried out according to the organization and whether it would be conducted with pleasure itself. - cheops
  • Looking for what organizations. If the organization is state-owned, then most likely it will need a copy that has been tested by the FSB and other structures, and this automatically means that you have to pay. In this case, you will pay not for the distribution, but for the confirming piece of paper. This is valid at least for workplaces from which work with personal data is conducted. Those. here it is better to ask the inspection bodies themselves, they will say more precisely - BOPOH
  • Organization type Ltd., we just want to make a terminal server to save money. So the question arises whether this software will be free in this case, or rather, can we use it like that.? - alexandrovdi
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    Be sure to indicate the state whose residents are “the organization and the inspection bodies”. - aleksandr barakin pm
  • @alexandrovdi For LLC will be free. And your goal - a terminal server will be absolutely free for you. - Justicet 5:46 pm

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Free Ubuntu

Ubuntu is only a collection of programs (packages) that come with their own licenses (GPL, MIT, etc.) for each package.

At the moment, Ubuntu's policy for choosing packages that will be distributed with Ubuntu is such that it will NOT include packages with "not free" licenses.

Under the "non-free" licenses, as regards their financial part, it is necessary to understand that they prohibit the use of programs for commercial purposes and may still require a fee for the purchase or use of the program.

In Ubuntu, such programs are not popular, because they prefer their "free" brothers who do not require a fee (although this is not prohibited, for example, in the same GPL licenses) for their purchase or use.

Therefore, ABW LLC can download Ubuntu for free, for example from the official website ubuntu.com and use it for commercial purposes, within the framework of the law, naturally.

Documents for inspection

As a rule, the only document that is available for a specific program from Ubuntu is its license, the text of which, if necessary, you can print.

In more detail about software authentication in offices, I suggest to get acquainted with this article .