JackOfAll wrote: > There are reasons why upstreams like Fedora and Ubuntu place as much > stock in trademark as license protection. If you change one line of > code, you cannot call it Fedora, that is protected by trademark, it is a > respin, remix or some such, and "unofficial", so downstreams who make > mods cannot point fingers straight back at upstream at the point any > changes they have made or the distribution of their "version" of the > upstream OS causes them a problem. And the mod doesn't have to be > significant. It doesn't even have to be code. Change one word in a help > document..... You are no longer some sort of "mirror" site, > re-distributing XYZ's upstream image, you are now distributing your own > image.
That clarification should be read by all. I had understood the project was effectively distributing it's own image, but not necessarily fully understood the ramifications. > The alternative to making sure you have bulletproof legal protection for > distributing images, is something I looked at and then dismissed some > time back. User downloads stock Fedora GA image. User puts that on a > SDCARD and boots device with it. Then he wgets a bash script from the > device. Running that bash script turns it from a stock Fedora image into > the music player image. Reboot et voila, you have a Community Squeeze > Player. No need to distribute an image. User gets the stock Fedora image > directly from Fedora. You are only distributing a script. Sounds simple. > But there is at least one issue that I was never able to solve. I > believe it will be solved by the time F21 ships in October..... It > complicates what the user has to do, to get the device up and running as > a music player.... For geeks only.... It needs to be made simpler, not > harder! ;) > > I'm not trying to be rude, just being my normal blunt self, but getting > a SDCARD image to which no changes need to be made (other than to > extract it) and copy/dd onto a blank SDCARD and the device booted, is > seen as complicated by some! This is exaclty the concept I thought might be feasible - for geek or non-geek alike. Surely people could follow instructions? As it is, anyone looking for an alternative for their shiny newCubietruck/Wandboard now will have to get to grips with some technical stuff. > I could write and have suggested I might write a book in a couple of > recent conversations..... But it wont be one or two pages. There is > enough material here for an epic tome, titled "Everything you never > wanted to know about distributing 'free' software". If it ever comes to light, put me down for a copy, it would make interesting reading. Thanks again for your time in respondong to my posts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Krisbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
