[clue-tech] CentOS

[William]

mike havlicek wrote:

 >Hey,
 >
 >Anybody familiar with CentOS? I am checking it out
 >based upon  a contract requirement. But I don't think
 >it (the distro) is really kosher. It seems to be an
 >absolute steal of RedHat Enterprise. Things are
 >confusig with GPL
 >but to totally take RedHat Enterprise and distribute
 >it freely was quite a task if legal.
 >
I use CentOS exclusively on all my servers.  You don't seem to realize 
what CentOS is:  a perfectly legal RHEL re-brand distro.  CentOS is not 
the only RHEL re-brand project.  Read up on 
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2.  All mentions 
of "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" refer to RedHat, 
who specifically asked CentOS not to display the RedHat name (else 
RedHat would be in a position of being asked to support CentOS, which 
isn't cool for RedHat).

 >I stll do wonder where CentOS got their code and if it
 >is legal. 
 >
Re-branding RedHat's distro is perfectly legal, has been going on for 
quite a while, and is nothing to fear.  When you use CentOS, you are 
really using a very slightly modified version of RHEL.  Ever time RedHat 
releases a new version of RHEL, CentOS follows suit very closely because 
RedHat makes their sources available to groups like CentOS.  CentOS is 
"kosher".  :)

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