On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmiksell at gmail.com