<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <tt>no idea as i just reply to his phrase "</tt>well that spin would be patented and it would not be fedora" <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best Regards, Jason <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jason_Benedict_Low">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jason_Benedict_Low</a> ------ When i work nobody care. When i rest everybody stare. ------ </pre> Max Spevack wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:alpine.LFD.1.10.0808240955260.3449@localhost.localdomain" type="cite">On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Jason Benedict wrote: <blockquote type="cite">you can read out "linuxfromscratch" to learn all out how you can build a Linux from ground zero. With that know-how, then you can see how you want to do a package management system and update system and etc for your distro . i had created many distro(out of fun and learning) from scratch myself and even had stripped RH8/9 or have rebuild with uclibc etc....but patented kinda not viable with all opensource GPL and alike licensing .... maybe only your invented propietary package management system and update system and system magement application........ </blockquote> I'm confused, is the parent trying to make a new distro, or to make a custom respin of Fedora? The first is hard, the second allows you to leverage our already-existing infrastructure. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CustomSpins">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CustomSpins</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedorahosted.org/revisor">https://fedorahosted.org/revisor</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>