Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:15:15 +0930 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: GPL: implications for FreeBSD-on-hardware for sale? Message-ID: <20040410074515.GS85168@grover.logicsquad.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, For a certain niche market, I am considering selling a software application by pre-installing it on a small machine running FreeBSD, and then selling the whole thing. Are there any implications arising from the GPL (or other more-restrictive-than-BSD licensed) code in the tree? Would it be arguable that I was, in fact, selling only the hardware and my own software application, and giving away the (GPL- and BSD-licensed) open source software for free? I presume that the GPL would require me to at least make the source code of the GPL-covered parts of FreeBSD available on request (Section 3(b)), given that I would not be including the FreeBSD source code (it simply wouldn't be required) in the installation. This bridge must have been crossed before. Does anyone have any experience here? -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAd6YL730Z/jysbzIRAm8HAJ4gewTFRDmkXr1460znZDX8cQpocgCaAtiy r6Fa0fw/uv9VGaBWkJJm7yM= =6xWi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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