Selling hardware bundled with XBMC?

Correct, though clearly from a business perspective it's silly to try and sell the application, as anyone that you sell it to can then distribute to anyone else at no cost.

Thus many companies either sell a service or hardware, rather than attempting to sell the opensource software itself. That way their customers can distribute the software to their hearts content - the company still makes money as they supply something of value over and above the software itself.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Hi Everyone,

I have started to offer a preconfigured Acer Revo on my website http://www.data-pro.co.uk/latest-product...-revo.html

I am just checking that I have no legal technicalities. I state that the program is open source, also I am not charging for the software, merely the hardware and my time installing ubuntu and xbmc so people who are not technically minded can enjoy it stright out of the box.

please add a link or two and explain that we are gpl. in particular you have to make it clear where they can obtain the sources. simply having an easily spottable link to xbmc.org would achieve all of these really. other than those, all good.

Hi Everyone,

I have started to offer a preconfigured Acer Revo on my website http://www.data-pro.co.uk/latest-product...-revo.html

I am just checking that I have no legal technicalities. I state that the program is open source, also I am not charging for the software, merely the hardware and my time installing ubuntu and xbmc so people who are not technically minded can enjoy it stright out of the box.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37934 Did you read this thread? particularly post #7 and its responses?

All your legal questions are answered already in this thread.

As for live tv... there are many existing solutions for xbmc. check out the pvr-testing2 branch. But as its in development, I probably wouldn't be rolling it out across a hospital or similar.

Personally I think xbmc would be your best option (by far) rather than mythtv. But I'm sure youd get a different response in the mythtv forum.

EDIT: damn, just wasted 5 minutes responding to a bot, and linking him to the post he stole... im an idiot

Hi,
I like to sell a Fanless Aluminium HTPC with XBMC.
Is it ok to call it somethink like:

MEDIAPLAYER
powered by XBMC


?
Bye Sidekick

You probably can't use "XBMC" directly in the product name, but there's nothing stopping you letting users know it runs XBMC in the description of the product etc.

jmarshall Wrote:You probably can't use "XBMC" directly in the product name, but there's nothing stopping you letting users know it runs XBMC in the description of the product etc.

Hi,

I tought about something like this:


This would be not OK?
Bye Sidekick

is it legal for a company to purchase bluray movies and screen it to its customer freely? is it legal if a person create backups of its bluray movie on hd? im not sure about bluray term and condition.

publicENEMY Wrote:is it legal for a company to purchase bluray movies and screen it to its customer freely? is it legal if a person create backups of its bluray movie on hd? im not sure about bluray term and condition.

Ask a lawyer if you don't know and are thinking about doing this as a company. Anything else would be silly.