Trademarks#
Wheelhouse is built on VyOS and names it plainly: on the console banner, on the About page
in the web UI, in /etc/os-release, in the source record, and throughout this
documentation. Naming a project is not the same as being associated with it. VyOS is a
registered trademark of Sentrium S.L., and no affiliation, endorsement, certification or
partnership exists between Wheelhouse and the VyOS project. This page sets out the position
on that name and on every other name used here.
VyOS#
| Owner | Sentrium S.L. |
| Basis for use here | Attribution. The images are self-built from vyos-build and rebranded per upstream's trademark policy, with attribution intact |
| Relationship | None. Wheelhouse is not affiliated with, endorsed by, certified by or supported by the VyOS project or Sentrium S.L. |
| Support | Support for this product comes from Wheelhouse. Do not ask the VyOS project about it |
Both of those last two rows are on the machine as well as on this page, in
/usr/share/doc/wheelhouse/TERMS.txt and /usr/share/doc/wheelhouse/THIRD-PARTY.txt.
What the rebranding changes, and what it leaves alone#
The image is not a VyOS release and does not present itself as one. It is also not a VyOS release with the credit stripped out. Both lists follow.
Changed, so the image does not claim to be upstream's:
- The ISO's application and volume identifiers, and the live image's host name.
/etc/os-release:NAME="Wheelhouse",ID=wheelhouse.ID_LIKE="vyos debian"andVYOS_VERSIONstay, so monitoring and configuration management can still see what the base is.- The boot splash, the boot menus, the pre-login and post-login banners, and the console banner. None of VyOS' artwork is redistributed in the image; the graphics are Wheelhouse's own.
/usr/share/vyos/EULA, which a release build fills with VyOS Inc.'s commercial end-user agreement. It is replaced with a symlink to the Wheelhouse terms, soshow licenseprints terms that actually govern what you have.- VyOS' Secure Boot MOK certificate is removed from
/var/lib/shim-signed/mok. It is a public certificate rather than a key and it is not enrolled in firmware, but it is somebody else's trust anchor.
Left alone:
- Every package's
copyrightfile, and every licence text under/usr/share/common-licenses/. - The GPL notices of every component, and the corresponding source that ships with them — Corresponding source.
- The credit itself:
Built on VyOS <version>on the console above every login prompt, the same on the About page in the UI, the base version in/etc/os-release, and the exactvyos-buildcommit in the source record.
The word "VyOS" is written as upstream writes it, and neither the name nor any upstream mark is restyled, recoloured or incorporated into a Wheelhouse logo.
Other names in this documentation#
Debian, Linux, Podman, Suricata, WireGuard, strongSwan, OpenVPN, FRR, Kea,
pdns-recursor, nftables, systemd, Prometheus, Grafana, Authentik, Tailscale, Stripe,
OPNsense, pfSense, MikroTik, RouterOS, UniFi and every other product named on this site are
the property of their respective owners. They are named here descriptively — to say what
software is running, what a page integrates with, or what a reader is migrating from — and
no endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship is implied in any direction.
Comparisons with other products describe behaviour. A comparison that would need a claim about another product that cannot be checked is left out.
The Wheelhouse name#
No registration, owner of record or jurisdiction has been established for the name "Wheelhouse", and none has been decided. A trademark review is planned before a public launch. Until it has happened, no rights over the name are asserted here.
See also#
- Built on VyOS — the technical relationship, in full.
- The Wheelhouse licence — what the proprietary parts are licensed under.
- Third-party licences — the components and their terms.