Dear Friends,
I have few questions.
1. I have a device on which I have installed CentOS 5.2 as an operating system. Now I want to sell this device. Will there be any issue ?
points to keep in mind:
a. There are no changes in OS. (it is just a stripped down image of original OS) b. I have installed few generic user space applications of my own installed in that OS.
I do not want to violate GPL or any other licenses. That's why to make sure I want to confim from you folks.
Thanks Puneet
"Puneet Goel" puneet.maillist@gmail.com schreef in bericht news:4b08f1290902110258i53788379gdfc266c2359a78e3@mail.gmail.com... Dear Friends, I have few questions. 1. I have a device on which I have installed CentOS 5.2 as an operating system. Now I want to sell this device. Will there be any issue ? points to keep in mind: a. There are no changes in OS. (it is just a stripped down image of original OS) b. I have installed few generic user space applications of my own installed in that OS.
I do not want to violate GPL or any other licenses. That's why to make sure I want to confim from you folks. Thanks Puneet
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Hi,
IMHO, if I understand the GPL lic correctly, in general you may ask what you want, but you MUST provide ALL sources including your modified and or added applications, and include no other lic restrictions than the GPL lic itself.
If you want to keep you apps closed source, than you should consult a GPL specialist layer. It makes a difference how the application is build and or linked against other libs.
Can anyone confirm or improve the above 2 liner statement?
Recent GPL lic disputes all boilled down to not providing the (modified) sources....
John
It would be very helpful if you could tell your OE to use quoting (">") instead of just clutching your reply below the original without any distinction. I know that it can do this.
Kai
"Kai Schaetzl" maillists@conactive.com schreef in bericht news:VA.000036b6.012f5ab1@news.conactive.com... It would be very helpful if you could tell your OE to use quoting (">") instead of just clutching your reply below the original without any distinction. I know that it can do this.
Kai
It would be very helpful if you could tell your OE to use quoting (">") instead of just clutching your reply below the original without any distinction. I know that it can do this.
Kai
It normally does, but the orriginal message is in HTML, so when the reply was ready, OE complained that the message was in HTML and recomended to convert it to text format, what I did. There the > went lost. I missed that.
John
I have no idea why it in previous post failed and now worked.
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John wrote on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:45:46 +0100:
I have no idea why it in previous post failed and now worked.
That is certainly somewhat better, thanks :-)
It normally does, but the orriginal message is in HTML, so when the reply was ready, OE complained that the message was in HTML and recomended to convert it to text format, what I did. There the > went lost. I missed that.
You have to tell your OE to *not* answer in the format of the message, but always reply in plain text. Then you won't get this problem. I think.
Kai
Puneet Goel wrote:
Dear Friends,
I have few questions.
- I have a device on which I have installed CentOS 5.2 as an operating
system. Now I want to sell this device. Will there be any issue ?
No issues. You can sell GPL software. In fact that's part of the freedom GPL guarantees.
You do need to the source code of GPS apps available (including any mods you made) to anyone you distribute it to, but you can sell it.
There may be a trademark issue - I can't speak to that, but I doubt you will have any problems is you did not alter the install.
Linux CD's (including CentOS) are sold all the time.
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