From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 8 06:35:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA13810 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 06:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA13793 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 06:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 26839 invoked by uid 1003); 8 Aug 1998 13:06:57 -0000 Message-ID: <19980808150656.A24024@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:06:56 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "customizing" FreeBSD installs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'd like to know the implications of creating a "customized" FreeBSD install. Basically, since you know you're going to have this thing installed in, say, South Africa, you can make certain assumptions. Basically, this entails changing a few files in /etc, like make.conf (for USA_RESIDENT, MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, etc) and similar files. I'd like to know whether doing something like this, changing a few configuration files, would be allowed, since I'd like to make FreeBSD more accessible for the many people I'm trying to convert here. (We have an ever-growing Linux base here who are interested in FreeBSD for the servers they administer, and I'd like to assimilate them sneakily. :>) Another project I'm interested in is one that involves installing and configuring a couple of ports by default, in addition to the normal install. IE, a "directed" install, for specific use. (I would start a company to do this, but location and other problems prevent, so I'd like to make this "freely" available.) Basically this is to do things like NAT easier, default ppp scripts for the major ISPs here, etc. I can make all changes available, and besides those changes the FreeBSD installation will be little different from a standard one with a few ports installed. All tools and additions would be released publically, of course. (and if the idea is not allowed by license, or whatever, I'll make and release these tools anyway, of course) I just want to know where I stand "legally" (and, of course, also what the FreeBSD people think of it.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message