On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 04/29/2011 11:17 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> The bickering here about Centos 6 has made me wonder what is actually >> legally necessary to re-distribute the RPM files that come with RHel6. >> >> I am not starting a flame ware, I hope. I'm just curious about what >> is minimally necessary go from RHel6 to another distribution. I >> suppose we could discuss "Paul Linux 6" instead of Centos, if that >> makes you feel more comfortable. (and not too OT) >> >> Suppose I dump out all of the SRPM packages and do a global find and >> search to change the characters "RedHat" to "Paul". What else would I >> have to do? >> >> Which of the RPM files in RH6 have "proprietary" software in them? >> Those cannot be re-distributed as is? I figure there must be >> something, because I installed the test version of SL6 back in January >> and it locked up in disk recognition, whereas RH6 did not. So the Rhel >> 6 folks know some secrets stuff. >> >> So, obviously, to create Centos 6, oops, Paul Linux 6, I have to >> isolate the non-GPL software and then replace it with something >> workable. >> >> After that, what am I legally required to do? As far as all of the >> other RPM packages are concerned, couldn't they be redistributed >> exactly as they are, without any modification at all? In Centos-devel, >> it appears to me most of the discussion is about "re-branding", going >> through the packages and changing "RedHat" to "Centos" and swapping >> out icons. >> >> Is that legally necessary? In my memory, there was a Linux distro >> called Mandrake and it was exactly the same as RH for i386, except >> they re-compiled with gcc options for i686. I recall that in many of >> the RPM packages in Mandrake, they did not bother to replace "RedHat" >> with some other name. > > This is not the PAUL Linux mailing list. It is the CentOS mailing list. > > The CentOS project will not redistribute files signed by Red Hat, and we > will not sign files that we do not create. Simple as that. > > You also must make a "good faith effort" to not distribute any branding > that makes your version of Linux tell people that it is Red Hat Linux or > Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I've always been surprised that CentOS ships /etc/redhat-release given the above paragraph. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110429/3973ebe8/attachment-0002.html>