Re: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure introduction
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:00:54PM -0700, Paul Graydon wrote:
> > If you want to build derivitive images that are based on our
> > configuration and associated tooling but have additional software
> > installed, you are free to use our tooling and configuration as a
> > starting point. This is, for example, how Google builds the images for
> > GCE. This allows them to add their own additional apt repositories and
> > software that is distributed outside the Debian archive.
>
> Okay, that sounds like a reasonable route forwards here. Are there any
> restrictions around what we can/cannot do, while retaining the Debian
> branding, as it were? For example, with the CentOS images (that we build
> and publish), there are some tight restrictions around what we install in
> the images. The main obvious thing there that I'd imagine applies with
> Debian too, is no installation of packages of a different version for that
> that is packaged and shipped by them in their repository (so no replacing
> the kernel, systemd, etc. etc.), at least not while still referring to it as
> "CentOS".
Debian's trademark policies are available at
https://www.debian.org/trademark, along with contact details for
clarifications, special requests, etc.
Aside from that, just make sure you abide by the license terms
associated with the various repositories you're working with. Also note
that even if you maintain the images yourselves based on an internal
fork of our repos, many (possibly even all) of your changes may still be
suitable for submission back to us. For example, GCE's apt repository
configuration is in our repository at
https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/-/blob/master/config_space/files/etc/apt/sources.list.d/gce_sdk.list/GCE_SDK,
and the directives to install their packages are at
https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/-/blob/master/config_space/package_config/GCE_SDK
We don't build or distribute images containing software from those
repositories, and don't many any statements about the software in them,
but that doesn't mean we can't reference them in apropriate
configuration.
noah
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