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What belongs in the Library
Anyone may add a distro to the Library. These rules keep it safe to download from, and say what happens when something breaks them.
The rules
- Nothing harmful. No malware, no hidden tracking, nothing meant to damage a computer or deceive the person using it.
- Nothing illegal, and nothing hateful, sexual or violent in the art, names or descriptions.
- Only art you may share. Your own, or work whose licence lets you redistribute it, credited in the listing.
- No one else's brand. No other project's or company's logos or trademarks, and nothing that suggests a distro is made or endorsed by Ubuntu, Fedora or anyone else it is not.
- Honest descriptions. Say what the distro is; don't impersonate a person or project.
How distros get in
A distro is added by a pull request to the Library repository. A distro can only pick a base, a desktop and apps from linuxlive's catalog, plus a wallpaper and a logo. CI checks the folder, builds the ISO and boots it five ways. A maintainer then reads the listing and looks at the art before merging. Only after the merge is the ISO built again by linuxlive and published.
Nobody can upload a finished ISO: everything here is built by linuxlive from a public spec, so anyone can see what is in it.
Report a distro or ask for removal
Write to abuse@linuxlive.com with the distro's page address and what is wrong. Owners of art or trademarks, and authors who want their own distro taken down, can write to the same address.
We look at every report. A distro that breaks the rules is removed: its folder is deleted from the repository, which deletes its ISOs, and its page goes with the next update of the site. Its author can also remove it at any time with a pull request deleting its folder.
Security problems in linuxlive itself go to the pipeline's security page instead.