On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Jon Grant wrote: > Going back to Red Hat distro. CentOS highlighted to me a while ago that > as well has having to remove the Red Hat log from packages, they are not > allowed to remove the logo from the Red Hat documentation created under > the OPL!
So what? That's a simply matter of using grep to replace the logos and references to RH during the building of the RPMs and then only on a small number of them. I have experience of this myself. I produced a RH deried distro from 1997 to 1999 and it is not hard to do this - in fact it is a lot easier now as RH put the branding into specific packages so as to make it easier for derived distros to rebrand. > CentOS told me it took them 3 months for CentOS-3 beta, and another 3 > months for the real release. CentOS 4 took about 6 weeks. So it does > seem more than trivial to de-brand a distro before you are allowed to > redistribute it. Those are meaningless measurements without knowing 3 months from when. The only value that really indicates whether it is a problem is how long after RH officially release they are able to follow with their own version. Checking I see that RH announced the release of version 5 on March and Centos did their release on April 12th. That doesn't say how much of those 4 weeks delay was down to rebranding and how much was down to rebuilding and testing all the packages in the final build and getting it distributed to the download sites before the release was announced. Jason -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ up to 8Mb ADSL Broadband from just £14.98 http://www.tuxphone.co.uk/ * Fantastic VoIP Internet Telephone Services * _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
