Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 March 2009 15:33:23 Oliver Schneider wrote: IANAL and TINLA, but you will probably only need to provide source for software that appears on the image that was licensed to your company under the LGPL or GPL. Those licenses give a number of options for how you can satisfy

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [...] Usually, this prohibits simply providing a pointer to the source code. The

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In jwv3addb3ea.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.u...@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier wrote: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [...]

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
Option a requires the source and binary to be distributed on the same medium. Yes, sorry I erased the right option (b) and kept the wrong one (a). Now, *if* the Internet is considered a medium customarily used for software interchange, a URL that was live for at least 3 years after the

Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile a custom kernel? Or is it perhaps better to base it on something like Knoppix (which in turn is based on Debian).

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 March 2009 13:33:35 Oliver Schneider wrote: what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile a custom kernel? Or is it perhaps better to base it on something

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Oliver Schneider
If I were you I'd take a existing live CD you think is closest to what you need and modify that, learning the tools they use to build it also the way. Okay, sounds sensible. This list is not a legal professional. Your company needs to be asking these questions to a lawyer. Of course not and

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Oliver Schneider borba...@gmxpro.netwrote: Hi, what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is debian live cd for this purpose? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile