Kiosk mode & distributing proprietary add-ins

[Liam Proven]

2009/3/27 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>:
> 2009/3/26 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> Is it legal to resell PCs in the UK with Ubuntu installed /complete
>> with MP3 playback, Flash etc./? Where would I go to find out about
>> this?
>>
>
> The Canonical OEM team would be my first port of call when talking
> about the use of the Ubuntu brand in selling computers.
>
> In terms of licenses for software, for Flash, google + adobe + flash +
> license results in:-
>
> http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/#desktop where the license for
> each Adobe product can be found.
>
> For mp3 playback I would suspect it depends which codec package you
> choose to use, and would need to adhere to whatever license under
> which that was distributed.

Firstly, I'm not considering selling anything, myself!

Let's put it this way. If one were making & selling PCs, and one
wanted to offer them preloaded with Ubuntu.

AFAIK & AIUI, as Ubuntu is Free, one can install it on the PC and sell
the PC, no issues, no payment or anything required. No rebranding or
anything.

*But*... what if before despatch one added the "universe" repository & did

apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Would that still be OK?

And if one then added the Medibuntu repos & also installed w32codecs,
libdvddecss, msttfonts, skype, adobereader

(or whatever the relevant package names are - the most common useful
proprietary add-ons, those which are freely available from the online
repos.) Nothing, in other words, that any Ubuntu user can't just add
themselves without licences, payment, EULAs or anything else.

Still kosher?



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