Re: Retailing

2005-11-18 Thread Joe Smith
"Peter Samuelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian indeed does not distribute the BIOS ... _but_ whoever sells a computer with Debian pre-installed most certainly does distribute the BIOS. That is what we are talking about; please try to read threads before re

Re: Retailing

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Joe Smith] > The difference is that Debian does not distribute the BIOS. Debian indeed does not distribute the BIOS ... _but_ whoever sells a computer with Debian pre-installed most certainly does distribute the BIOS. That is what we are talking about; please try to read threads before replying

Re: Retailing

2005-11-15 Thread Joe Smith
"Michael Poole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kieran Lloyd writes: Dear Sirs, I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have any argument with this? I will obviously be

Re: Retailing

2005-11-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:44:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Michael Poole] > > For example, GRUB and Linux are both licensed under the GPL. Both > > would be included with these retail systems and would be written to > > locate and call functions within the BIOS; that is, GRUB and Linux

Re: Retailing

2005-11-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael Poole] > For example, GRUB and Linux are both licensed under the GPL. Both > would be included with these retail systems and would be written to > locate and call functions within the BIOS; that is, GRUB and Linux > would be dynamically linked against the (presumably non-free) BIOS. It

Re: Retailing

2005-11-14 Thread phil
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:12:06AM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:38:59PM +, Philip Hands wrote: > ... > > You should be careful not to give the impression that you are charging a > > license fee though -- you are allowed to charge a fee for the copy of > > the pr

Re: Retailing

2005-11-13 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:38:59PM +, Philip Hands wrote: ... > You should be careful not to give the impression that you are charging a > license fee though -- you are allowed to charge a fee for the copy of > the programs, or for the service of installing them, but not for the > licenses (in

Re: Retailing

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Poole
Kieran Lloyd writes: > Dear Sirs, > > > > I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I > want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have > any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc's > have Debian installed however I will

Re: Retailing

2005-11-13 Thread Philip Hands
Joe Smith wrote: > Kieran Lloyd" wrote: > >> I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I >> want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. >> Would Debian have any argument with this? I will obviously be >> advertising that the Pc's have Debian installed however I >>

Re: Retailing

2005-11-12 Thread Joe Smith
Kieran Lloyd" wrote: I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc's have Debian installed however I will not be charging for it I woul

Re: Retailing

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Waters
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:56:00PM -, Kieran Lloyd wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I > want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have > any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc's > have D

Re: Retailing

2005-11-12 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:56:00PM -, Kieran Lloyd wrote: > I am considering selling some home made PC's on Ebay, the thing is I > want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have > any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc's > have Debian installe

Retailing

2005-11-12 Thread Kieran Lloyd
Dear Sirs,   I am considering selling some home made PC’s on Ebay, the thing is I want to sell these pre-installed with Debian Linux. Would Debian have any argument with this? I will obviously be advertising that the Pc’s have Debian installed however I will not be charging for it I would