Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Red Hat UPtoDATE

[loic]

        Hi,

        From what I read it seems to be a very ambitious project.
Are you sure a project on Savannah will be enough ? Wouldn't you need
a dedicated machine in addition ?

        The other serious concern is that a distribution is made of
many software and that not all of them are under the GPL. In fact
there probably even are some software that are covered by licences
that do not even qualify as Free Sofware on the RedHat-7.1
distribution since RedHat does not make a difference between the
two. Debian does, for instance, and you'll be able to see which
software are free and which are not.

        Maybe a more detailed description of what you plan to do will
help understand how and if it can be supported by the GNU project ?

        Thanks in advance for your help,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > a n g u s <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: Red Hat UPtoDATE
 > System name: redhat-up
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Red Hat UPtoDATE
 > is a customised Red Hat 7.1 with:
 > - all erratas
 > - SGI xFS installer (xFS filesystem)
 > - some mirror of RPMs site on disc2
 >      seawolf.freshrpms.net
 >      Ximian Gnome 1.4
 > TODO
 >      reiserfs install support
 >      Gnome 1.4 integration
 >      maybe last KDE integration

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