Selling Projects

roxinhojp

Hello, i have a big question, there is any way to sell a RaspBerry PI KIT with the retro pie emulator with? there is any problem if i sell the rasp berry pi (RPI + Case + Charger + controller and other necessary to use Retro Pie) but i let the SD Card with the Retro pie free? i ve seen to much people selling this type of project. thanks for the awnser

herb_fargus

@roxinhojp

https://retropie.org.uk/documentation/legal-contact/

roxinhojp

@herb_fargus i asked here because i didnt understand that.

mediamogul

@roxinhojp

This part seems somewhat clear.

If you are selling hardware that supports RetroPie you should provide a link to our site for your customers rather than including a RetroPie image with your product.

roxinhojp

@mediamogul so its a shit. I would be selling this with the retro pie, but it doesnt matters too much, everyone its selling the retro pie anyway

mediamogul

@roxinhojp said in Selling Projects:

but it doesnt matters too much

It matters very much, to many people. Does it not matter to you?

herb_fargus

@roxinhojp and all my friends are jumping off bridges so I should too.

That attitude and projects like it are the reason projects like this get shut down. The exact same thing is happening with Kodi and the rampant piracy which btw people are starting to crack down along with people getting taken to court

But by all means. continue to spit in our faces, make 180K off our work. At the rate things are going Nintendo will be on our back like fleas on a rabid dog, and once that happens- we are pulling the plug. no questions asked.

I'll be sure to forward everyone to you and all the others like you when they all wonder why the project was shut down.

roxinhojp

@mediamogul doesnt matter, i would just use this to sell anyway

mediamogul

@roxinhojp

So you're a shit.

roxinhojp

@mediamogul no, i am who wants to make money, not waste time with a non monetizable software

herb_fargus

@roxinhojp so code your own software instead of stealing other peoples work and repackaging it.

roxinhojp

Dont give a shit. Still gonna sell it.

BuZz

User has been banned (for obvious reasons).

Zigurana

This makes me sad-mad.
Hey, at least he was being frank about it.

mediamogul

@Zigurana

An honest thief. Now all I need to do is find a hooker with a heart of gold on here and I'll win forum bingo.

BuZz

Unfortunately there are many others like this user - just got another mail from someone who initially wrote to us telling us they were going to sell retropie.

Now they have written a long email telling us why it's ok and why it's ok to sell it with roms.

Seems like these idiots are quite pleased with themselves. I tell myself they are in the minority, but they seem quite vocal. It does endanger our project as @herb_fargus has pointed out.

I hope it's all worth it to them. I'm sure it is - they just want to make a few quid. Who cares about the future of RetroPie when you can make some money eh ?

markyh444

Makes me sad all these pricks, especially as they blatantly splash RetroPie all over their listings so people come here asking for help. Then they generally get told that they've bought something illegal and struggle to get the help they want, through no real fault of their own. After forking out for something, they're then told to wipe the SD card and start again so we can assist. Kind of elliminates the idea of buying a pre-built SD ready to go. I also doubt any of the sharks selling it will support any of it, they'll just send them here coz it's not their software.

Sad face.

enderandrew

FWIW, I don't personally plan on selling a RetroPie project personally, but I know there are people who want to buy a pre-built working solution rather than try to build something themselves. There are gamers who aren't necessarily tinkerers. And there are people who have limited internet or bandwidth who don't want to download the software.

RetroPie itself isn't illegal software.

If someone wants to sell hardware that includes the software, the limitation should be that they:

1 - Don't include illegal ROMs
2 - Keep the GPL license included in the image
3 - Include a link to the website so users can get support here if they need it

There are legal ROMs and open source games that can be included in a legal image.

BuZz

@enderandrew many of the emulators have non commercial clauses in the licence. The software is always used as the selling point on eBay etc.

Lyle_JP

@mediamogul Even when you find one of those, it doesn't seem to affect price one bit! :(