Thank you very much for your response. zvika
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 à 13:39 -0700, zferentz a écrit : > > My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a > > Linux software appliance . One of the suggestions was to use Linux > > Debian as a core . > > Thanks for your interest. I think you will find Debian to be very > convenient for such use. > > > My questions are pretty basic : > > 1. can we simply create a software appliance and ship it to our > > customers ? we don't mind to provide the code for the "free stuff" , > > however we are not allowed to provide our own sources. > > Yes. You are required to provide the sources for many of the free > components, but the licenses do not force you to open your own code in > the general case. Of course, if you decide to extend a copylefted piece > of software, you will have to comply with the copyleft in order to > redistribute it. > > > 2. we plan to use LDAP and Apache , are there any restrictions that we > > shall be aware of ? > > No. > > > 3. What if we're using the "non-free" repository ? can we ship stuff > > from there and publish the names of the packages ? > > Contrarily to the main repository, you will have to evaluate each > package from the non-free repository and see if you can comply with the > terms-of-use. > > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' > `- >
