If a system could be arrnaged what would be the terms? Also could a pro version be made. When I say made I just mean make it look diffent with minor changes. So that people can buy a new and inovative product.
On Friday, December 17, 2010, Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:12:37PM +0000, anthony budd wrote: >> But is it not the case that if someone sold your OS for any price yet >> downloaded it for free would infringe the copyright law? > > No, because the software you download is made availabe under a free > license, see the previous links and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > > The service you are providing is downloading the software and putting it onto > some kind of media for users to install. You can charge whatever you like > for that service, but you can't force people to use it because they are > free to download it themselves at their own cost. > >> Otherwise could we >> negotiate a commission system were I sell the OS in the UK? > > If you redistribute Debian and make a profit, you could consider making a > donation to the project to fund further development. But no, there is no > commission system and there will probably never be. > > > -- > Jonathan Wiltshire [email protected] > Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw > > 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
