Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:08:43 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Message-ID: <3C4F6CAB.76D9CAE2@mindspring.com> References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> <20020124014413.F53456@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > You, or anyone else, are free to create their own installer and/or > related technologies. You can create your own FreeBSD distro if you want, > and go and market it. > > But you must also include, somewhere, the project's installation > routine, and provide a mechanism that lets the end user choose what gets > run. How about we call this mechanism "buying CDROM A instead of CDROM B"? > For example, you might ship on CDROM, and include the project's floppy > disk images, and instructions on how to use them to create a "FreeBSD > Project" install. This is actually the first time this particular option has been raised as "permissable". > Or you could describe how the user can interrupt the > boot process and change the init path variable to point to sysinstall > instead of your own installer. Not workable, due to CDROM boot image size restrictions. > But you can make your installer the default if you want. Just make sure > they can get to the project's installer as well. There's still the problem that it isn't *you* who are allowed to make these rules, it's the trademark holder, or their agent; historically, their agent has denied permission for such things. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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