Can I post a modified ROM image online?

I’d like to post a modified ROM image, with Kernel_gpa and the build log file on github so that other people can try out SimpleAsPi; is that legal, or are there some hoops I have to jump through?

I’m not ready to do it yet, but hoping to fairly soon.

I think the Apache licence allows you to do that.

That was my understanding, too, but I thought something in the image might be under another licence or something.

Thanks.

Sharing your modified ROM on GitHub sounds cool. Legal stuff can be tricky, though. Check out the licensing terms of the original ROM and Kernel_gpa to be on the safe side. Also, be clear in your README about what’s going on. I’ve seen folks get into hot water for not being upfront.

Yes you can, so long as the extra stuff you want to include (the GPA etc) is not GPL or closed.
RISC OS itself is a mix of bsd, CDDL, and Apache.
So you could quite happily fork it and maintain your own RISC OS if you wanted… not that our world is big enough for such a thing to be useful, this isn’t a systemd debate. ;)