[CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild

Fri Aug 18 23:06:06 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Alain Reguera wrote:
> if I understand, the CentOS project is not just supported technically
> by the CentOS Developers Team but financially too ?, in case of close.

correct.

> Could be the issue of the CentOS Developers be redhat's customers a
> relationship with redhat ? ( supposing that if they pay for something
> they becomes customers of that).
> 

none of the CentOS devlopers are directly customers of Redhat for the
distro products ( that i am aware of ) , some of them might be via
commerical / work place routes )

>> > What happen with those countries that are not allowed to use redhat,
>> > can they use CentOS ? does redhat want this ? is this permitted by
>> > some legal argument.

Allowed by whom ? Most of the CentOS developers are not based in the US,
and neither are US laws applicable to anything that we do!

And anyway, where can I find such a list where RH products are not
permitted ?

>> CentOS does not distribute our product in any places where the United
>> States export laws prohibit distribution.

CentOS isnt a US product, if anything is a UK based entity, and there
are no restrictions on anyone using it - whatever part of the world they
might be from, unless the GPL thinks otherwise.

I didnt think the GPL was influenced by internal US politics :) - and I
 hope that I am not wrong.

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