On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:56:00PM -0000, Kieran Lloyd wrote: > Dear Sirs,
> I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I > want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have > any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc's > have Debian installed however I will not be charging for it I would only > be charging a mark up on my hardware. Please advise if this would be > acceptable. You can do this. You can even charge for the software (whatever you think the market will bear, given that the software is freely available), or for the service of installing it. HOWEVER, for MUCH (although not all) of the software, you MUST either provide the source code along with the system, or must provide a written offer (good for three years) to provide the source code to ANYONE who asks. See the GNU General Public License at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on any Debian system or at <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> for details. The easiest way to do this is to include CDRs with the source of any packages you have preinstalled. This, by the way, is a good excuse for adding a couple of euros/dollars (or the equivalent in your local currency) to the price. Note that we (the Debian Project) are mostly (re)packaging various Free/Libre/Open Source programs found on the Internet, and are not responsible for setting or enforcing the license terms. Only a couple of components (such as the package tools dpkg and apt) are copyrighted and licensed by Debian itself. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
