[CentOS] redistribution of isolinux binaries
Brian Reichert
reichert at numachi.com
Tue Oct 13 22:21:09 UTC 2015
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:18:16PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/13/2015 01:40 PM, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:51:07PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:42:08AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >>> The info you are looking at there is for CentOS-7 .. the syslinux for
> >>> CentOS-6 is here:
> >>>
> >>> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/SPackages/syslinux-4.04-3.el6.src.rpm
> >
> > Related question; where do these files come from?
> >
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/EFI/BOOT/
> >
> > I think they're grub-related, but can't prove that...
> >
>
> Before answering more questions ... I really should point out that if
> you are modifying the CentOS Linux ISOs and distributing them to others
> while still calling them CentOS Linux, you are likely in violation of
> our Trademark rules:
>
> https://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/
That is a separate detail that I need to review; I had run across
this reference in the past.
> Those ISOs (and files) are produced by the buildinstall process. The
> files in question are created by anaconda-runtime tools.
That's good to know. I'm curious about satisfying the obligations
of redistributing GPL software. I'll try to trace down the details
of this buildinstall process, so I can try to track down where the
associated source is provided by the CentOS project.
--
Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large
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