I am not a lawyer, but I think you are misunderstanding what the license pertains to. Most people are writing their own application that runs on the BeagleBone. In your case, it may be written in Java and run on a JVM that has a GPL license, but unless you are modifying the JVM code itself, I don't see how the license would apply to your own code. Likewise with the Linux OS and its licenses. If you modify the OS or the JVM, you have to publish *that* code. Your application code is your own business, in the same way that people who write Windows applications don't need to obtain licenses from Microsoft.
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:51:45 AM UTC-4, Oscar Castiblanco wrote: > > Thanks for your answers. > > Regarding software, I am still lost. I read follow this interesting > presentation: > http://coscup.org/2010/slides/14_1_1630_gpl_enforcement.pdf > > and as far as I understand, I would not be allowed to sell a product based > on the beagle bone black (without logo) with the Debian installed by > CircuitCo given that I don't want to open my software that actually is > running over a JVM with a licensed javaSE embedded (because I guess I can > not either give commercial use to the open-jdk!). > > > On Friday, November 11, 2011 1:34:32 PM UTC+1, David Goodenough wrote: >> >> I know that BeagleBoards are not supposed to be used in commercial >> products, and that clones/derivatives should be used instead. >> >> I have also read in the BeagleBone SRM that "We mean it; these design >> materials may be totally unsuitable for any purposes.". So its >> obviously on our own heads - we can not blame anyone else. >> >> But that does not quite answer the question as to whether there is >> the same prohibition on commercial use on the BeagleBone. >> >> David >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
