Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 07:49 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 08:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 06:33, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > An outsider would almost think that fedora management really
> > doesn't want it to be a usable product that might compete
> > with some other distribution.
> 
> I'm a future VMware Certified Professional (should be in about a month)
> and a lead for my company in the Virtualization space. As someone also
> fairly active in the Fedora community, I'm inclined to think the *best*
> mix that satisfies everyone's needs here is to see if VMware would be
> willing to put together and support a FC5T2 and later VM. Anyone care to
> submit a sample VM to VMware and see if they bite? See the VMware
> Virtual Machine Center http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/ for details.
> 
> There's a Red Hat VM there now, as well as 2 FC4 VMs (minimal install
> with and without selinux) and a number of VMs for other distros and OSes
> available in their "Community" section. They also use Ubuntu as a base
> for their free VMware Browser appliance. What's interesting is that the
> *source* for the VM is available (a.k.a. the Ubuntu CD and all of the
> components). The VM itself is most certainly proprietary though (by
> Raul's definition) since it can only be played using the VMware Player.
> 
> Now this does bring a new issue to mind - because something GPL is being
> distributed inside a proprietary piece of technology, is the whole now a
> derivative product, thus making the virtualization technology also
> subject to the GPL? In other words, does distributing a Linux distro in
> a VM force you to also distribute the VM as GPL? I don't believe this to
> be the case - but it could be a grey area...
> 
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isn't the entire discussion of Fedora VM image distribution best had on
the fedora-developers list?

Craig