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 Originally Posted by samab
Sure you can ignore all the laws, all the licensing terms and set up a service and charge a fee
This is covered by decades-old, established legal precedent from the early Linux days. You can't charge for the software when the license dictates it cannot be sold BUT you can charge for physical media, a handling fee to cover loading the free software onto the physical media, and the shipping of said media. I.e. Slackware can be downloaded for free or you can pay someone else $5 to download it, burn it to CD and mail it to you.
Installation of the software is a service, separate from the distribution. It is perfectly legal to charge for installing free drivers; Best Buy does it all the time.
I would expect that only a handful of models would be supported by such a business at any time. After all, WebOS has had no more than 2 "current" phones at any time (Pre/Pixi, Pre+/Pixi+, Veer/Pre2, Pre3) in the past.
I'd be fine with having ONE WebOS phone available on Sprint that was on more or less current hardware. Compared to a Pre-, the original Evo would be a massive hardware upgrade.
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