Comercial implementation of HASS - Open Source.... and now?

j6miranda · October 30, 2018, 4:50pm

Hello

I’m a HASS addicted and at the moment I have it in my house fully pimped and in my parents house it on the same path!

One friend of mine asked me to “implement” HASS on his Public CoWorking space that is about to open. The purpose is to have all the advantages of a smart office. In parallel I developed a WebApp to allow the integration of some extra fields.

He is loving the pilot that I showed and he is very thankful for all the work that I had. Due to that he is asking me to sell him the product… According to him, the tool is very interesting and for sure there are more CoWorking space interested in having it.

Of course, the HASS it self cannot be sold because I do not own it… It belong to US (OpenSource/Community).

My question is: “Can I charge a third party for the workload in parameterisation of a solution mainly based on a software that is under OpenSource License?”

silvrr · October 30, 2018, 6:01pm

This is what you need to be looking at, the license for the open source software being used.

github.com

home-assistant/core/blob/dev/LICENSE.md

                                 Apache License
                           Version 2.0, January 2004
                        http://www.apache.org/licenses/

   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

   1. Definitions.

      "License" shall mean the terms and conditions for use, reproduction,
      and distribution as defined by Sections 1 through 9 of this document.

      "Licensor" shall mean the copyright owner or entity authorized by
      the copyright owner that is granting the License.

      "Legal Entity" shall mean the union of the acting entity and all
      other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common
      control with that entity. For the purposes of this definition,
      "control" means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the
      direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or
      otherwise, or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the

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Note that that licenses only applies to the home assistant back end. The frontend, hassOS, hassio, etc. all have similar but different licenses.

nickrout · October 30, 2018, 9:28pm

Yes of course you can charge for your services.