Wow, thanks everyone for the excellent replies. I am a developer and not much of a legal guy, so pointing out the licensing issues with Ubuntu was especially helpful.
It sounds like we are going to choose Yocto for our product. On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:42 +0200, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Bob Cochran <yo...@mindchasers.com> wrote: > > > > How dp you plan to sell/market/license your Ubuntu based machine? > > > > Would you become an Ubuntu hardware partner? > > http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/find-a-partner/hardware > > > > The scope of this partnership seems to be servers and desktops. I assume > > they also have something in the works for smart phone partners. > > > > However, I'm guessing you're building something that doesn't fit these > > categories. > > > > I remember seeing various demo images over the years of Ubuntu running on > > embedded hardware, but it always seems to fizzle out. EmbeddedUbuntu on the > > Ubuntu Wiki was last updated in 2009. > > > > But maybe you're talking with people at Canonical and they are telling you > > something different? If so, please share. > > i guess this is of interest for the discussion (from [1]): > > === > 2. Your use of Ubuntu > > You can download, install and receive updates to Ubuntu for free. > Ubuntu is freely available to all users for personal, or in the case > of organisations, internal use. It is provided for this use without > warranty. All implied warranties are disclaimed to the fullest extent > permitted at law. > > You can modify Ubuntu for personal or internal use. > You can make changes to Ubuntu for your own personal use or for your > organisation’s own internal use. > > You can redistribute Ubuntu, but only where there has been no > modification to it. > You can redistribute Ubuntu in its unmodified form, complete with the > installer images and packages provided by Canonical (this includes the > publication or launch of virtual machine images). > > Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, > certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it > with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the > Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your > own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source > licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us > to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution > you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may > be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set > out below). > === > > IANAL... but i guess the last paragraph clarifies what you can do (or not). > > [1] http://www.canonical.com/intellectual-property-rights-policy
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