Distributing a Fedora appliance

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Nov 27 10:42:55 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 15:37:12 -0300,
  Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 14:48:52 -0300,
> >  Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> A full Linux installation in a VM doesn´t already include all
> >> copyright and licenses inside the VM file?.
> >
> > If you distribute binaries, you need to make source code available as well.
> > There are a few ways to do that and you want to make sure you are doing at
> > least one of them.
> 
> The source code is already provided by the distro distributed. A VM is
> just a repackaging of the distro, in its installed form.

You can't always point to the distro you are derived from for sources. There
are cases where you can, but I am not sure that this is one. Arguably you
might also need to provide the source for the build scripts for making the VM
image.


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