[olug] Red Hat bulletin

[Vincent]

Removing the logos and support text shouldn't be difficult since the src rpms are available...  Just make your modifications to
contents, update the spec file accordingly and rebuild.  I doubt there are more than a few rpms which include the things in
question.

Making your own distro is really easy too (the comps xml file is a bit hairy).  I did it once just to include all current updates on
initial installs.  There's even a  howto available.  You can have your Husker Linux distro ready in less than an hour if you know
what you're doing...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO

Trollbait:
If you are good at doing this, give "your" distro a catchy name like "Mandrake", and you could make a few bucks!  :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Walker" <linux_user at grax.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat bulletin


> I agree that the principle is reasonable.  Has anyone looked at what it takes
> to remove the Red Hat logos?  If they are too heavily integrated I would hope
> that Red Hat would make changes to make them easier to remove as I would
> complain that heavily integrated art is GPLed.
>
> Think they would be bothered by someone creating Husker Helmet Linux?  (Think
> about it) (or is there lawyer on the UNL side that would come after me?)
>
>
> On Friday 18 July 2003 07:16 am, Craig Wolf wrote:
> > That is a reasonable look at it.  Thanx for the opnion...
> >
> > Craig Wolf
> > Linux Web Server Support
> > Backup Supervisor
> > Desktop/Network Specialist
> > 402-894-6283
> >
> > >>> vincentr at cox.net 7/17/2003 >>>
> >
> > No, it looks like they don't want people re-distributing downloaded CDs as
> > "RedHat Linux".  That dosen't sound like an unreasonable request.
> > When someone downloads it for free, they should know that no support is
> > provided.  If someone buys the same downloaded copy in a store, they
> > probably think they have access to support, RHN, etc... Redhat support
> > folks probably spend a great amount of time answering phones and email
> > telling people that they didn't buy an official copy and have no support.
> > That would get old after the first 100,000 times and it could have a
> > negative impact on real customers.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org>
> > To: <olug at olug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:49 AM
> > Subject: [olug] Red Hat bulletin
> >
> >
> > Seems Red Hat no longer wants people to download their OS...not if you need
> > to know what distribution it is:
> > http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/FEA5148AE2814F7BCC256D63001072A9
> >
> >
> > Craig Wolf
> > Linux Web Server Support
> > Backup Supervisor
> > Desktop/Network Specialist
> > 402-894-6283
> >
> >
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