If you're doing the actual setup and installation of the boxes. As opposed to, say, selling a disk that contains all the software. Then my understanding is that you don't have to do anything special. You don't have to make source code available - even if you made changes. Especially since there's no way you can get caught unless the FSF raids one of your clients and siezes their hardware. Which seems uh...unlikely. :-) Of course if you make any changes to hardware that might be useful to others it is in your best interest to make it available so they can correct your bugs, suggest improvements, etc. -Brady > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:09:34PM -0500, Raymond Norton wrote: >> I am considering selling some boxes set up for a small business that >> will run a web site, MTA, spam filtering, and content filtering. I have >> done some reading on GNU and GPL, and it seems I am in compliance, if I >> am not offering the software itself for sale, and all code modification >> is made available. > > If you're *distributing* the software, you need to make the sources > available. This could be as simple as providing a written offer for the > sources with a fee attached to have the sources mailed out. You don't > have to make the sources available online, but you do have to make it > available. Whether or not you're making changes to the sources, you > still have to provide the source. > > .../Ed > >> Are there other things I need to consider before moving ahead with the >> idea? > > Probably. Talk to a lawyer... I'm not one (so confirm what I said > above!). > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >