Re: Licensing questions regarding distribution of the raspberry pi platform bundled with proprietary software
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
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6H3-xTmtVKsWLimh_ow6EGzeuAS5FpuWqZ=yoae8zp...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Licensing questions regarding distribution of the raspberry pi platform bundled with proprietary software
I am creating a video streaming platform using the Raspberry Pi. I have wrote software that captures video and streams it to a server using OpenCV. The client then can monitor the video feed using a computer, or smartphone. OpenCV uses the FreeBSD license, and my code is running on Raspbian, a Debian distribution, using the raspberry pi 2. However, there are many other bundled packages that are included with the Raspbian image, such as python, java, and other software I'm not using. It is required to remove these packages before distributing the system, or is the Raspbian image itself GPL compliant? 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? Firstly, this is not legal advice. If you're doing something this significant, you should see an attorney that knows the law with regards to intellectual property in your jurisdiction. Secondly, DFSG 9 is License Must Not Contaminate Other Software. Thirdly, you can sell GPL software anyway, even for profit, without asking for permission. Look at how many people sell Debian CDs: https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ pgpPvalASLfOU.pgp Description: PGP signature
