On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Legalese is much worse than rocket science. Where does a VM image fit in this scheme? Can people build a VM image with an application installed for distribution and still identify the base system name? And if so, how/why is that different from any other copy?
No, The CentOS team creates VMs and cloud images and distributes them. Those are official. Things created by someone else are not official. This is for YOUR protection.
So all of the VMs out there with apps pre-installed should _not_ mention the name of the base OS they use?
You can give people CentOS ISOs and call that CentOS, you can use CentOS to create 'Your Thing' and give that to people as 'Your Thing'. You can't call 'Your Thing' CentOS. Why, because 'Your Thing' is not actually CentOS. You can say 'Your Thing' is based on CentOS (if you modified CentOS) .. or you can say 'Your Thing' runs on CentOS if you distribute 'Your Thing' and an unmodified CentOS on the same media and install it via a kickstart.
So even if the resulting copy is identical, there is a difference in what it should be called? Or can you call it the same once it is done, just not the piece that does the installing?