On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Michael Redinger wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Lance Davis wrote: > > > I have been working on similar for a little while, but based on building > > on rh7.2, to avoid any possibility of license problems ... > > I don't think there are any licensing problems as long as you rebuild > everything - including the installer. > However, you must not redistribute it, it's only for your (your company's) > use. See RHAT's "Trademark Guidelines and Policies": > http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/
Surely as long as you conform to those guidelines, eg dont call it 'Redhat' etc , and build everything from gpl source then there is no problem. > > One thing that strikes me is that some of the srpms, in particular the ibm > > jdk stuff are not open source and are clearly licensed commercially as > > part of rhel, you cannot use them without purchasing them as part of rhel > > and they therefore must be removed from any rebuild, vene if it is only > > for your own use. > > Hm, are you it must be removed? The Red Hat SRPMS directory includes the > IBMJava2* SRPMs. So I thought this shouldn't be a problem ... But the license is commercial and per computer :( Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
