Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale

2017-12-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Legal, I am working with a team that is working on a low-cost laptop that would be GNU/Linux based. When it comes to choice of distribution that would be preinstalled on the laptop, Debian is among them. In this context, please let me know the following: - Do I need someone's permissi

Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale

2017-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Kumar Appaiah writes ("Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale"): > Dear Debian Legal, Firstly, you need to know that this mailing list is for discussion etc. and is not empowered to make decisions on behalf of Debian, or on behalf of the copyrightholders of the software in Debian

Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale

2017-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale"): > Kumar Appaiah writes ("Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for > sale"): > > I am working with a team that is working on a low-cost laptop that > > would be GNU/Linux based. When it comes to choice of

Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale

2017-12-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I am working with a team that is working on a low-cost laptop that > would be GNU/Linux based. When it comes to choice of distribution that > would be preinstalled on the laptop, Debian is among them. When that happens, please ensure you get

Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for sale

2017-12-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:56:31PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for > sale"): > > Kumar Appaiah writes ("Preinstall slightly modified Debian on laptops for > > sale"): > > > I am working with a team that is working on a low-co

Re: Bug#883731: audacious: Debian packaging has incorrect license

2017-12-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dear Debian Legal Team, I've CCed you for my reply to this bug, because I don't have the experience to be able to tell if Debian implicitly relicensed Audacious as GPL-3 from 2012-2016, how potentially falling out of BSD-2-clause license compliance might have affected this, and also how this shoul