Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* David Given [100323 01:28]: > [...] > > If you want some more minimal, you can calculate a more minimal set via: > > Look at the packages installed (look in /var/lib/dpkg/status), assemble > > a list of source packages. > [...] > > Unfortunately that's an infeasible amount of work --- it's a non

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, David Given wrote: > What are my alternatives? Is there a standalone, > one-static-binary-with-no-dependencies-whatsoever version of > cdebootstrap I can give my users? You can use cdebootstrap-static; it depends on wget, which should be trivially satisfiable on any architectu

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/03/10 20:12, Bernhard R. Link wrote: [...] > If you have not stripped /usr/share/doc from your debootstrap it should > contain all the licenses needed in form of /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > files. The image will *literally* be created like this

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* David Given [100322 13:56]: > I'd like to distribute a Debian root file system with my (open source) > projects. What are my legal obligations when doing so? > > What I want to distribute is a tarball of a basic debootstrapped root > file system. This isn't a format that Debian itself distribute

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Walter Landry
David Given wrote: > On 2010-03-22 15:14, Paul Wise wrote: >> In any case, some of the software you are distributing will be GPL, so >> you'll need to also distribute source code. > > How do Debian derivatives such as Knoppix or Elive do it? AFAIK, they > don't distribute the source code for unmo

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread David Given
On 2010-03-22 15:14, Paul Wise wrote: [...] Can you give us some more info about what you are doing? Perhaps we can come up with a better way than distributing a pre-installed filesystem. It's a chroot environment for a platform that doesn't support debootstrap. I'd be more than happy to downl

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Mar 22 14:24, David Given wrote: > > Absent any modifications, all of Debian (that is, the ‘main’ archive > > section) is free to redistribute verbatim in any form. Many other > > actions are also permitted; see the specific license texts for details. > > I've read that; unfortunately, it j

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM, David Given wrote: > I'd like to distribute a Debian root file system with my (open source) > projects. What are my legal obligations when doing so? Can you give us some more info about what you are doing? Perhaps we can come up with a better way than distributin

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/03/10 13:56, Ben Finney wrote: [...] > Absent any modifications, all of Debian (that is, the ‘main’ archive > section) is free to redistribute verbatim in any form. Many other > actions are also permitted; see the specific license texts for detai

Re: Distributing Debian derivative

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
David Given writes: > I'd like to distribute a Debian root file system with my (open source) > projects. What are my legal obligations when doing so? Your legal obligations under copyright law are to comply with the license terms in the copyright files of each package you redistribute. > What I