Re: GPL compliance for commercial hardware product running Debian

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:29 PM, kevin anthoney wrote: > Would we need to provide source code for all the GPL software running on the > PC? Assuming the answer is "yes", is there a sensible method of collating > all the necessary source code? Yes, you would. I would encourage you to ship source

Re: GPL compliance for commercial hardware product running Debian

2017-02-22 Thread Ben Finney
kevin anthoney writes: > We're looking at developing a commercial product, which will > essentially be a PC running Debian with a browser on it configured to > connect to our web app. Thank you for choosing Debian to run on this product. Note that this forum (‘debian-legal’) is a discussion for

Re: GPL compliance for commercial hardware product running Debian

2017-02-22 Thread kmarsc...@ellemsoftware.com kmarsc...@ellemsoftware.com
As far the GPLv3 is concerned you must include the "installation information" necessary to modify and reinstall the software (GPLv3 Sec. 6). For instance you must provide link and perhaps some instructions needed to acquire the verbatim source code for the software running on your device. For

GPL compliance for commercial hardware product running Debian

2017-02-22 Thread kevin anthoney
We're looking at developing a commercial product, which will essentially be a PC running Debian with a browser on it configured to connect to our web app. Would we need to provide source code for all the GPL software running on the PC? Assuming the answer is "yes", is there a sensible method of c