[clue-tech] CentOS

[William]

mike havlicek wrote:

>Surely, but it can be modified with propriatory
>changes as long as the original source is made
>available at least by url  if not by ftp by the
>provider??????
>
>But the propriatory changes that make the company
>money are not required to be provided. It is only the
>universityware that has to be provided.
>-Mike
>  
>
You are cursading on the wrong cause.  Please take the time to actually 
read the GPL license text very closely.  Get a lawyer who specializes in 
IP, software patents, and/or copyrights to help you understand it.

This conversation has deviated from a CentOS question into a question of 
GPL license terms.  Back to the original question and to summarize what 
we have been trying to tell you:

Use CentOS with a clear conscience if you have been asked to use it.  
There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, or with using it, or with 
distributing it, or with altering it, or with renaming and 
redistributing it.  If you don't understand why, we won't explain it to 
you; we aren't lawyers.  We have done our own reading and questioning 
and we are all content with the legality of using CentOS.

If there was anything wrong with it, you can bet that RedHat would have 
put a stop it it a long time ago, along with all the other RHEL 
re-branding projects.  RedHat has already dealt with CentOS and did 
nothing more than assert that the name, "RedHat", could not appear on 
the CentOS website or on the binary product.

This is all a whole lot simpler than you seem to think it is.  We've 
answered your question.  If you're not happy with our answer, then 
you're not asking the right question  For the rest of your concerns, you 
must seek out a laywer.  We cannot help you further with your licensing 
questions.

I'm sorry if this seems stern.  You are exhausting the question and 
crusading, which drove me to this reply.
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