Distributing a Fedora appliance
Fernando Cassia
fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 12:14:40 UTC 2010
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 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.
What scripts?
Virtualbox provides a menu option titled "Export VM Appliance".
There are no scripts.
FC
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