I thought one of the other things about Mandrake is they included
non-exportable encryption, which is not an option for RedHat. No?
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike A. Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: custom dist based on Redhat
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Frank Hale wrote:
>
> >> Absolutely. That is why I recommend _against_ doing
> >> carte
> >> blanche search and replace
> >> 's/[Rr]ed.*[Hh]at/whatever/g' on
> >> things. There is no point other than to try and
> >> strip Red Hat of
> >> credit due, and in the process destroy copyright
> >> notices, and
> >> set one's self up for possible legal trouble and an
> >> angry Linux
> >> community. (See LinuxONE for a perfect example..)
> >
> >I agree 100%. I had no intention of replacing there
> >name with my dist name everywhere. I am only
> >interested in changing it where it pops up like when
> >you log on and also in the boot sequence, and in a few
> >other places. Most of the packages are downloaded off
> >the net (ie created either by Redhat or others). I
> >have no intention of defacing packages to make it look
> >like I created them. At the present time what I am
> >working on is mostly a patch work dist which contains
> >alot of updates and some packages have been removed
> >which I don't use, I've also made slight changes to a
> >couple of the scripts in the initscripts package. I
> >don't plan at the moment to distribute this on the
> >internet, its just for me at the moment. But I don't
> >want to accidentally change something that will make
> >me look bad later on down the road if I deside to make
> >the dist available for download.
>
> Yep, all sounds good. I've more or less done the same but not to
> the level you seem to have done. I havent modified the
> installer, but it is just my personal copy, and ones I've given
> away (very few). All I've basically done is modified the package
> lists, genhdlist, and burn. Sorry if it seemed I was implying
> that you were up to no good, but that wasn't my intention. I was
> merely pointing out that others have done so IMHO and I think it
> is tasteless and unethical despite the GPL freebie status of
> everything.
>
> Any time someone wants to do something with GPL code of another
> author, or to modify something like a distributed CD and
> redistribute, while it isn't necessary to inform anyone, it is a
> polite gesture to ask them if it is ok as sort of a courtesy
> thing. Also to give full credit where it is due. I don't know
> about Mandrake right now, but I know when they started it was
> just Red Hat plus KDE, then later recompiled for Pentium
> aledgedly. I have seen a lot of Red Hat bashing put out by that
> dist, and their followers saying that it is "better", as if to
> bite the hand that fed them. LinuxONE did one better and took
> Mandrake and did a search and replace on it (if I understand
> correctly based on an old Slashdot article). I lost all respect
> for these distributions after that. Distributions shouldn't step
> on each other or hinder each other. It makes them look bad in
> the community when they do. That is why I respect Red Hat so
> much. They give a lot to the community that everyone can use,
> and I've never heard a single Red Hat employee bad mouth another
> distribution or seen any thing of the sort tied to RHL.
>
> Although you can't technically "steal" GPL code if you use it and
> abide by the GPL licence, some people out there have come about
> as close to "theft" as you can get ethically.
>
> Of course, this is all IMHO though... Just irks me to see
> someone try to pull one over on someone or some company that
> is doing good for the community.
>
> Well good luck with getting your dist going. Take care!
> TTYL
>
>
>
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