Kind-of similar to this recent post, but I’d like to present my casual case.
Lets say I run a general small-town computer repair business. Someone gives me their computer and tells me to wipe it and do whatever. I clean the dust off it, update the BIOS, stress-test the hardware, memtest, and basically make sure the hardware itself is good to go.
I’d plan to install Fedora Workstation to that computer, go through Anaconda/install, power it off, and hand the computer back to the person; they turn it on and go through GNOME setup wizard and do whatever they want.
In the other discussion there was mentions about not being able to modify a Fedora image to sell it. In my case I’d be installing Workstation as-is and not doing anything beyond Anaconda/install.
Is there any legalese involved with that?
- I’d be charging for the general hardware testing/maintenance, not the choice of OS installed (not charging anything for the Fedora install itself)
- I’d be using official Fedora Workstation images as-is from the Get Fedora download page
- I’d test Fedora itself from a personal install from an external USB drive first to make sure it’d work fine for the other person post-install, and include a physical printed paper or email with links to anything needed for special hardware/drivers (NVIDIA, Broadcom, etc) for the other person to do themselves
- Would Custom Partitioning be involved as a custom change? I’d plan to use Custom Partitioning → Standard Partitioning (no LVM) → different filesystems (XFS/ext4/F2FS; not Btrfs)