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[Nicholas Battaglia]

Is this for internal use, as in, your "not-for-profit entity" only?

Again, not sure if this is a "fork" as much as it is a direct port.

Why not just use Ubuntu and just customize it to your liking?

On 3/28/06, Jon Kristensen <jon.kristensen at dedikerad.se> wrote:
>
> tis 2006-03-28 klockan 10:59 -0500 skrev Michael Beattie:
> > On 3/28/06, Jon Kristensen <jon.kristensen at dedikerad.se> wrote:
> > > Hello (again) developers!
> > >
> > > I posted a mail on this list a couple of days ago where I asked about
> > > Ubuntu forking (thanks for your kind replies!), and now I got another
> > > question. It's not about Ubuntu development so it might not be
> relevant
> > > to bring it up here, but in that case, please point me to the relevant
> > > list. Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > Say that I would fork Ubuntu, making only small changes that does not
> > > effect the system's packages. Would it be OK for that system to use
> > > Ubuntu's official package archives, or are they for Ubuntu only?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> >
> > If you arent changing the system packages, what are you forking
> > exactly?  That doesnt sound like an Ubuntu fork...
>
> Well, if the not-for-profit entity that I represent will go through with
> this, it will differ from Ubuntu in the following ways (or something):
>
> * It will not offer any non-free packages at all
> * It will look slightly different
> * We may change the installation application
>
> Note that this project is not commercial.
>
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