Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-12 Thread Andres Perera
your comments hint to you not being very familiar with packages(7) you can distribute it as an executable that ultimately installs a package i say this because reusing the infrastructure, and having it take part of the db for easy removal and inspection is a great bonus. it means less work for yo

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-12 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/12/2013 04:26 AM, James Griffin wrote: - Jack Woehr [2013-02-11 15:46:29 -0700] - : If you need OpenBSD you have the technical skills to install it or you know (and possibly pay) someone who does. OpenBSD, which is 20-ish years old now, was designed and is designed and appa

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-12 Thread James Griffin
- Jack Woehr [2013-02-11 15:46:29 -0700] - : > If you need OpenBSD you have the technical skills to install it or you know > (and possibly pay) someone who does. > > OpenBSD, which is 20-ish years old now, was designed and is designed > and apparently always will be designed for those w

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-12 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 11 15:58:39, themazed...@gmail.com wrote: > On 02/10/2013 06:47 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: > >On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: > > > >>Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few > >>technical skills. > >Crap! It is well documented and very litt

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-11 Thread Jack Woehr
Crookedmaze wrote: On 02/10/2013 06:47 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input ca

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-11 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/10/2013 06:47 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input can be done

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: >Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few >technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input can be done by accepting the default. > >Why not make it a live sy

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Maximo Pech
Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Why not make it a live system that boots from cd/dvd/USB/sd with everything already configured and ready to run? El sábado, 9 de febrero de 2013, Crookedmaze escribió: > On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan Francisc

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/10/2013 12:02 AM, bofh wrote: Why not make it a ports/package then? On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Crookedmaze wrote: On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: Hello Everyone!, I

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread bofh
Why not make it a ports/package then? On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Crookedmaze wrote: > On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello Everyone!, >>> >>> I am creating an OpenBSD Spin-off an

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Crookedmaze
On 02/09/2013 06:53 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: Hello Everyone!, I am creating an OpenBSD Spin-off and have a question about what the rules are regarding doing something like this. I have looked at the OpenBSD c

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: > Hello Everyone!, > > I am creating an OpenBSD Spin-off and have a question about what the > rules are regarding doing something like this. I have looked at the > OpenBSD copyright page and it looks like doing so would be alright >

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Bennett
Would this be something that offering a method to burn a USB stick would also work with? Maybe burn a CD version and reboot off of the CD and install into a USB drive? Chris Bennett

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:53:09PM -0600, Nicolai wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: > > > what I plan to do is to create my own spin-off off OpenBSD that comes > > configured to function as a server for a game called "Minecraft", > > and comes with things like O

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Nicolai
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Crookedmaze wrote: > what I plan to do is to create my own spin-off off OpenBSD that comes > configured to function as a server for a game called "Minecraft", > and comes with things like OpenJDK (required to run Minecraft), but it > will still be OpenBSD

Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-09 Thread Crookedmaze
Hello Everyone!, I am creating an OpenBSD Spin-off and have a question about what the rules are regarding doing something like this. I have looked at the OpenBSD copyright page and it looks like doing so would be alright but I would like to be sure that what I am doing is alright. I do not ne