On 7/3/19 1:43 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi folks,
AFAIK CentOS uses RedHat's source RPMs for building the next CentOS release. I am not sure about the bootstrap procedure and the infra- structure packages, so lets put these corner cases aside.
RedHat's "regular" binary and source packages are based on open source (GPL2, GPL3, Apache license, whatever). For building the binary RPMs other open source RPMs with compatible license conditions are used.
My question is:
Are RedHat's binary RPMs "poisoned" somehow, making it impossible for CentOS to redistribute RedHat's *binary* packages without going to jail?
Every insightful comment is highly appreciated.
CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL source code .. we do not distribute RHEL binaries.
IANAL - You would need to talk to yours to get an answer to the rest of your questions.