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  • Re: Permission to distribute

    From =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment_Hermann?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 6 09:50:13 2024
    Hi,

    Le 4 avril 2024 08:29:07 UTC, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
    On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:00:46AM -0700, John Lee wrote:
    Hello Debian Team,

    I just wondered if I can sell computers that I build with Debian Linux
    pre-installed. The computers may also include programs I create. I tried to >> find the answer to this question but still unsure.

    That's the whole point of Debian. If you stick to the "free" repo, you will >only have free software in it. So you are free to modify and redistribute >that software.

    For software from the non-free repo, you'll have to look into its license
    and possibly contact the vendor.

    That said, each part has its own license. For some, e.g. GPL, you are not >allowed to restrict the recipient of that software to do the same.

    Usually, packages install the relevant info in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright.


    In addition to Tomas answer, this chapter of the Debian FaQ should be of interest to you:

    https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/redistributing.en.html




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  • From tomas@tuxteam.de@21:1/5 to John Lee on Sat Apr 6 09:51:19 2024
    On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:00:46AM -0700, John Lee wrote:
    Hello Debian Team,

    I just wondered if I can sell computers that I build with Debian Linux pre-installed. The computers may also include programs I create. I tried to find the answer to this question but still unsure.

    That's the whole point of Debian. If you stick to the "free" repo, you will only have free software in it. So you are free to modify and redistribute
    that software.

    For software from the non-free repo, you'll have to look into its license
    and possibly contact the vendor.

    That said, each part has its own license. For some, e.g. GPL, you are not allowed to restrict the recipient of that software to do the same.

    Usually, packages install the relevant info in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright.

    HTH
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