[mythtv-users] Re: OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[Jack Trout]

it depends on what you charge for in selling the boxes, alot of
companies get around gnu licenses and such when they sell products
that contain linux or open source software by 1 including copies of
the original source and not representing the software as your creation
the 2 legal things you can sell, are the hardware that was purchased
at a reasonable markup, and then support for the setup and service of
the equipment, if you dont actually sell the software or claim to
provide subscription services without making contracts with zap2it its
gets real shady, but if you give them support to configure thier own
account according to mythtv rules, then they are following the
opensource guidelines that TMS set forth, but I guess it depends on
how many of those boxes you make and sell.

Just my 2 pennies



On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:37:52 -0400, Jeff <jeff at intersystems.com> wrote:
> Friday, October 29, 2004, 6:35:21 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
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> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:10:49PM -0400, Tim wrote:
> 
> >> Hmmm... I guess that selling commercial pre-configured
> >> "MythTV" boxes would qualify wouldn't it?
> 
> > That depends.  If you leave it up to the customer to set up the
> > listing source and register with TMS, I don't see why they
> > would be upset.
> 
> Because if they didn't exist, you wouldn't be able
> to sell a MythTV box to someone, at least not without
> some kind of subscription to receive the listings.
> 
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