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.
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