CentOS - Oct 2015 - redistribution of isolinux binaries

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:42:08AM -0500, Johnny Hughes
wrote:
> The info you are looking at there is for CentOS-7 .. the syslinux for
> CentOS-6 is here:
> 
> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/SPackages/syslinux-4.04-3.el6.src.rpm
> 
> The CentOS team did not modify that source code, we just built it as is.
> 
> That source code produces the syslinux binary used by CentOS-6 (from the
> syslinux-4.04-3.el6.x86_64.rpm (ir i386) RPM).
> 
> As to how that happens, we simply use the rpmbuild command to produce
> the syslinux RPMs, which when installed provide the binary file in
question.
Cool!  That makes perfect sense to me, and satisfies all of my
original points/questions.  Thanks again; make my research much
easier. :)
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
-- 
Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:51:07PM -0400, Brian Reichert
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:42:08AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > The info you are looking at there is for CentOS-7 .. the syslinux for
> > CentOS-6 is here:
> > 
> >
http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/SPackages/syslinux-4.04-3.el6.src.rpm
Related question; where do these files come from?

	http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/EFI/BOOT/

I think they're grub-related, but can't prove that...

-- 
Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large

On 10/13/2015 01:40 PM, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:51:07PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:42:08AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> The info you are looking at there is for CentOS-7 .. the syslinux
for
>>> CentOS-6 is here:
>>>
>>>
http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/SPackages/syslinux-4.04-3.el6.src.rpm
> 
> Related question; where do these files come from?
> 
> 	http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/EFI/BOOT/
> 
> I think they're grub-related, but can't prove that...
> 
Before answering more questions ... I really should point out that if
you are modifying the CentOS Linux ISOs and distributing them to others
while still calling them CentOS Linux, you are likely in violation of
our Trademark rules:

https://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/

Those ISOs (and files) are produced by the buildinstall process.  The
files in question are created by anaconda-runtime tools.

CentOS has Special Interest Groups, where new install images can be
built, etc. by group members .. see this for more info:
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup

We want users to use CentOS Linux as a platform for other projects ..
ideally via these SIGs, but even as not part of SIGs we are fine with
people using CentOS Linux as a basis for projects.

If you are not part of a SIG though, and are using CentOS for a basis of
a project then the key thing to remember is to not modify our installer,
but add your software at the end of the install process.  Then you would
call the thing you distribute "your software" on CentOS.

We have images for generic KVMs, vargrant, AWS, Docker, etc. on our wiki
download page as well as ISOs.  If you use those as is and add things to
them then "your software" on CentOS Linux name is fine.  If you modify
our images however, then you need to remove our trademarks and call it
"some other linux" based on CentOS.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL:
<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20151013/3d747018/attachment-0001.sig>