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 like Knoppix (which in turn is based on Debian).
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. >In addition I'd like to know how the following works. I am asking this > because our company would like to offer a wizard that allows the end-user > to create a bootable CD. Now, what are the implications from the GPL? The > program that is supposed to be included is proprietary. This is similar to > the (Linux-based) rescue CDs included in products such as TrueImage, > Paragon Drive Backup ... I've never seen those companies offering the > source code or scripts used to build it. But that's not the point because > we would be happy to offer those. However, is it really necessary to > provide the source form of all packages used, or is it enough to provide > the tools to do it via a Debian system? This list is not a legal professional. Your company needs to be asking these questions to a lawyer. 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 the requirement to provide source. The image itself is generally not considered a derivative work of the tools used to build it, so you aren't constrained by their license. The image is generally considered a "mere aggregation" of the software it contains so it as a whole is not covered by their licenses or vice-versa. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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