[clue-tech] CentOS

[mike havlicek]

--- William <wlist-clue at kimballstuff.com> wrote:

> 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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So where does Fedora come into play?

-Mike



	
		
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