On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:59 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 20:58, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > >We publish all code and scripts we use for such stuff - and if users > > > >want to, they have access to this - to use and deploy within the GPL > > > >framework. What we do expect is that users who make this effort > > > >contribute back to the community rather than just sponging ( is there > > > >such a word ? ) off it. > > > > > > Karanbir, the word is 'freeloading.' > > > > But you have to admit that there would be something amusingly > > ironic about the Centos project opposing distribution rebuilds... > > > > I have no problem with rebuilds if they are open source and they don't > claim to be CentOS. > > You surely don't see PNAELV telling us how to create a distro ... or the > people at debian helping the ubuntu guys ... or gentoo guys helping > VLOS. > > > Not offering to help is understandable though. > > That is the point ... why would we help create a competing distro? ---- http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/howto.html I think John's spirit and information was exactly what he was doing - helping others create competing distributions based upon RHEL. Why would you want to do that? I don't know, and I suppose that by reading the above, it seems clear that you aren't inclined to do so. Craig