ubuntu licence

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Oguz Yarimtepe wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 14:37 -0600, Jason Crain wrote:
>   
>> You may want to read about Ubuntu's trademark policy at
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
>>     
>
> I got an answer form Ubuntu itself about this issue and they said it is
> not allowed to sell a product with Ubuntu installed because of trademark
> policy. For an end customer there is no restriction about downloading
> and installing Ubuntu. so they suggest an OEM package to sell the
> product with Ubuntu :). 
>
> It seems i should find an Ubuntu derivative or any other distro that
> won't have trademark restrictions. Any suggestions?
>   
What's the problem? Why don't you go OEM? It's rather convenient. You
want some kind of OEM agreement if you are going to resell hardware with
software if only so that you have a proper support back-end. And, if I
remember your initial post, you already have some kind of OEM agreement
with Canonical for another line of products, no?

Ubuntu is also probably the most user friendly Linux out there, and the
one with the best visibility. So chosing it is probably the best bet if
you want to make your machines attractive.

Gilles.