On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:30 -0700, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
Just wondering....
What is Centos policy regarding the use of Centos in a strictly commercial product?
For example: http://www.instantogo.com/
Others in this thread have discussed that so long as a company follows the licensing requirements of the individual packages that people can use CentOS in this way. So, whether we like it or not, CentOS can and will be used this way.
However, I want to say that the CentOS Project is 100% supportive of the use of CentOS in this way. Everyone wins, even if people charge for the product. Making money is not evil ... we all have to pay the rent.
We are also 100% supportive of projects that are totally free (as in beer) and give their sources to everyone. We wish that everyone who used CentOS would do that, but as long as they follow the licensing requirements we are fine with people using CentOS in their projects. In fact, we would much rather projects (commercial or not) use CentOS instead of any other distro. We think CentOS is the best distro out there to base your product on .. and would be happy to work with people to help them do that.
We would expect that groups who use centos as a base for their product, and who make money from that product, would donate monetarily to the CentOS project. We hope to see InstantGo do that as they gain customers.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes