Thank you all for your responses. I am pleased to hear that it seems like I am in the clear from a legal standpoint. I am not planning on removing java, so I will remove those packages.
Thank you for your input, and thank you for making a useful, and legally compliant product. -Charles On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Admin <ad...@raspberrypi.org> wrote: > Paul > > Thank you for your interest in Raspberry Pi. > > We cannot provide legal advice, but our understanding is that it is legal > to distribute the Raspbian image as-is. Note that special terms apply to > the use of Java in "non-general purpose compute" platforms such as kiosks; > we do not believe this applies in this case. > > Regards > > Nicola Early > Administrator > Raspberry Pi > nic...@raspberrypi.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Paul Wise > Sent: 24 June 2015 06:33 > To: Charles MacKay > Cc: Admin; debian-legal@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Licensing questions regarding distribution of the raspberry > pi platform bundled with proprietary software > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Charles MacKay wrote: > > > What legal grounds do I need to adhere by to make sure that is legal > > for me to sell my raspberry pi system and software bundled with it to > others? > > Anything from Debian main should be legal to distribute as long as you > also distribute the source packages. > > Since you are using a Debian derivative and not using Debian, you'll need > to review the parts that have been added to or changed from Debian. The > Raspbian people can probably tell you about their policies but I imagine > that Raspbian main has the same policy as Debian main. > So you should check if any packages not from Raspbian main are installed > and review their copyright information. > > https://www.raspbian.org/ > > To make things more complicated, as I understand it, the Raspbian images > distributed by Raspberry Pi are modified from the Rasbian distributed by > Rasbian themselves. I personally don't know what changes were made, > hopefully the Raspberry Pi folks will answer you. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
