Krisbee wrote: > > This is perfeclty understandable, but without full knowledge my > suggestion might seem naive. Would it not have been possible to create > and distribute a Fedora based image with the patched kernel and root > file system, but devoid of the jivelite/squeezelite/webUI/LMS content, > or parts of, which lead the distributer to be open to legal claim?
There are reasons why upstreams like Fedora and Ubuntu place as much stock in trademark as license protection. If you change one line of code, you cannot call it Fedora, that is protected by trademark, it is a respin, remix or some such, and "unofficial", so downstreams who make mods cannot point fingers straight back at upstream at the point any changes they have made or the distribution of their "version" of the upstream OS causes them a problem. And the mod doesn't have to be significant. It doesn't even have to be code. Change one word in a help document..... The alternative to making sure you have bulletproof legal protection for distributing images, is something I looked at and then dismissed some time back. User downloads, stock Fedora GA image. User puts that on a SDCARD and boots device with it. Then he wgets a bash script from the device. Running that bash script turns it from a stock Fedora image into the music player image. Reboot and volia, you have a Community Squeeze Player. No need to distribute an image. User gets the stock Fedora image directly from Fedora. You are only distributing a script. Sounds simple. But there is at least one issue that I was never able to solve. I believe it will be solved by the time F21 ships in October..... It complicates what the user has to do, to get the device up and running as a music player.... For geeks only.... It needs to be made simpler, not harder! ;) I could write and have suggested I might right a book in a couple of recent conversations..... But it wont be one or two pages. There is enough material here for an epic tome, entitled "Every thing you never wanted to know about distributing 'free' software". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
