[WBEL-users] Where to remove the RedHat stuff

[Daniel J. Summers]

Alex Chen wrote:
> I need to resell machines that bundle commercial software and runs on 
> Red Hat Linux.
> But their license fee is too high to be affordable.  It seems that I 
> can redistribute their open source stuff as long as all Red Hat 
> trademark stuff has been removed.
> I am trying to do that but do not know which packages to start with 
> because Red Hat's web site is very vague about how this can be done 
> (intentionally I believe).
>
> I come across your site and find it very interesting.  I appreciate if 
> someone can answer the following questions for me:
>
> 1. Can I use your package to install a machine for resell?  Is there 
> any fee involved?
As far as I know, you could pre-install WBEL on a machine you sell to 
someone else.
> 2. Is it based on Red Hat 9 or Red Hat enterprise system?  If it is 
> RHES based, what version?
This is answered by question #7 in the FAQ at 
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/faq.html .  Short answer, it's RHEL, and 
the major version numbers correspond to Red Hat's major version numbers.
> 3. All the RH RPM packages contain the string 'Vendor: Red Hat Inc."  
> Does your package take care of that? If not, does that violate Red 
> Hat's EULA?

> 4. Does it have any extra stuff added?
Not sure about these two....  But, check out questions 2-4 on the FAQ - 
that may be enough detail for you.

> 5. If I decide to do it myself, what packages should I modify?
John Morris has created a page where he explains how he did it - it's at 
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/howto.html .

Personally, I don't know that I'd do it myself.  What you'd end up doing 
is the same thing that John Morris has done with WBEL, and Johnny Hughes 
and company have done with CentOS (http://www.centos.org).  The projects 
are good, there are people who are updating them (and, if the hurricanes 
will stay away from LA, WBEL updates will continue!), and they're both 
the enterprise-class RHEL that business expects.


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