@Johann doesn’t this sentence from the license, if interpreted strictly: Fairphone grants you a free of charge, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, limited copyright license to download, install and use the Software for non commercial purposes only on a Fairphone 2 device in machin…

[image] leVin42: That’s not what ‘commercial purposes’ means. If you call your boss you’re still using the FP2 as a private user. A commercial purpose would apply if you sell the software, sell a device running the software, or are using the software in a professional environment. There’s a bit…

Hi all, Just a follow-up that I am looking into this question with team members. I’m not sure I will have an answer today but in the next few days I’ll write back here with info.

Hi all, Internally, we were gathering information and I think I can answer most of your questions. Note: I am not a tech or legal expert, so if you have more specific questions, please write our support team . Users can only use the blobs for software that goes on their Fairphone 2. The person…

Edit by @Stefan : This post and the following 3 were moved from here . Hi Arvil, thank you for your question.Yes, at the moment, it uses the proprietary blobs provided by Fairphone. This is the license http://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/dev/fp2-blobs-download-page.html The second item says: …

My (and other people’s) understanding of this item is that you should be able to build your own ROM on your computer (which is still borderline not the case given the “only on a Fairphone 2 device” clause) with it, but can’t share it (since the license is non-sublicenseable and non-transferable). I’…

I agree with everything but this sentence: [image] pencil2 B2G beta (formerly Firefox OS) you should be able to build your own ROM on your computer (which is still borderline not the case given the “only on a Fairphone 2 device” clause) Here is a quote from @anon90052001 : [image] anon9005…

Thanks Stefan for this clarification. While I’m glad this is the case (I was not aware of this post from Joe) I wonder whether this would hold into court.

[image] Arvil: My (and other people’s) understanding of this item is that you should be able to build your own ROM on your computer (which is still borderline not the case given the “only on a Fairphone 2 device” clause) with it, but can’t share it (since the license is non-sublicenseable and no…

It would probably be good, to not offer download links to the public, but only in PMs, for example: “Send me a PM and I’ll post you the download link”. This way it shouldn’t be a problem. Disclaimer (do we really have to do this? ;)): This also is no legal advice.

Ok, thank you for the information. I have just updated the link. Now the users need a decryption key, which I can share via PM, in order to download the build. However, I hope that in the future there will not be such license issue.

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Stefan January 17, 2016, 2:58pm 12

I agree with everything but this sentence:

Here is a quote from @anon90052001:

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