[gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Mark Humphrey]

Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
clients?



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[gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Mark Humphrey]

Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
clients?



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:01:07 +0200, Mark Humphrey wrote:

> Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
> CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
> Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
> clients?

I hope not, I've created many tens of thousands of these for distribution!

You do need to watch the licences of the individual packages. Some of
those have distribution restrictions, some are not even included on the
Gentoo mirrors, but you would know that unless you checked the ebuilds or
where each one was downloaded from.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:01:07 +0200 Mark Humphrey <markh@net-1.org>
wrote:
| Are there any legalities behind creating your own set of installation
| CDs or DVDs - which contain specific packages available through the
| Gentoo repository and exclude other default ones - for distribution to
| clients?

1. Various core Gentoo things which you might be modifying are
covered by the GPL.

2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either redistributing
the source, or redistributing the package in binary form, or
redistributing a modified package in binary form.

3. Some packages have weird trademark restrictions to do with shipping
modified binaries. Anything Mozillaish comes to mind...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> 2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either redistributing
> the source, or redistributing the package in binary form, or
> redistributing a modified package in binary form.

Some even have mixed licences within the same package, win32codecs comes
to mind, so grepping the ebuilds for LICENCE isn't enough.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:36:07 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
wrote:
| On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > 2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either
| > redistributing the source, or redistributing the package in binary
| > form, or redistributing a modified package in binary form.
| 
| Some even have mixed licences within the same package, win32codecs
| comes to mind, so grepping the ebuilds for LICENCE isn't enough.

If that's the case, you may have found a bug. LICENSE supports syntax
which allows specifying multiple 'and' or 'either-or' licences.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:33:21 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> | Some even have mixed licences within the same package, win32codecs
> | comes to mind, so grepping the ebuilds for LICENCE isn't enough.
> 
> If that's the case, you may have found a bug. LICENSE supports syntax
> which allows specifying multiple 'and' or 'either-or' licences.

OK, I'll try and find the ebuilds I'm thinking of (win32codecs and
netscape-flash ring a bell as being troublesome) but I'll have to check.


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