On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Steve (ROOL) wrote: > On 25 Oct, Steve Fryatt <st...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote: > > Having just asked on #netsurf, it seems you might be best emailing Vincent > > Sanders with your question (as per the CC) and go from there. Be aware > > that it will very likely get discussed in full on IRC, as that's how the > > developers usually communicate. > > Thanks, Steve. > > Hi Vincent, > > RISC OS Open will be attending a show in London on Saturday and we're > preparing a USB memory stick which contains all sorts of stuff that's useful > for RISC OS users, notably a boot sequence and disc image, emulator software > for Windows, Mac and Linux, and other goodies. > > We'd like to get the all-clear from some selected third party free software > vendors to include their software in the disc image. Would it be OK for us > to include a pre-installed RISC OS build of NetSurf? We'd use the latest > official release (I believe 2.8) rather than any bleeding edge build. > > We are going to sell these sticks for a small profit, but that money goes > into the administration of the RISC OS shared source project, and not in > paying ourselves. > > If you could get back to me with a go/no-go before the end of Thursday, that > would be a great help. > > Thanks, > > Steve
It is GPL licenced software and therefore you are welcome to ship NetSurf, you do not require our permisison explicit or otherwise as long as you abide by the licence! As you're distributing it commericially you will need to either include all sources, for 2.8 fetch from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/releases/netsurf-2.8-full-src.tar.gz or a written offer to provide them, good for two years. The same is true of any other GPLed-software you wish to distribute. The *only* note is that NetSurf is licenced GPLv2 *only* (no "or later" clause) and has special exception for OpenSSL linkage, both are commonly found changes. I have also been asked to remind you that you may wish to distribute an up to date copy of unixlib. May I suggest http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html as a definitive reference for your future licencing queries, especially the section "Distribution of programs released under the GNU licenses" and the answer http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary -- Regards, Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
