Alex Chen spake the following on 1/26/2006 12:07 PM:
We need to resell systems that run commercial software on Linux. We were using Red Hat ES 3 originally. But we later realize that we cannot redistribute RHES without paying them huge subscription fee because of the trademark. I came across CentOS from WBEL mailing list. This looks like a godsend to me. I have some questions regarding CentOS. I would appreciate it if someone can provide me the answers:
- Can I use your package to install a machine for resell? Is there fee
involved? Do you have any EULA that I can get? 2. I believe it is RHES based, what is the version matrix corresponding to Red Hat ES? 3. Does it have extra stuff other than vanilla RHES added? 4. If I decide to do the rebuild myself to remove the RH trademark stuff, what packages should I modify?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Alex
Look here; http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 and to quote; "CentOS-4 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at" "CentOS-3 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at" Notice the words "freely disributable"
But then again, if you are making loads of money using their distro, a donation to their cause would not be unreasonable. CentOS-4 is equivalent to RedHat enterprise 4 and CentOS-3 is equivalent to RedHat 3 ...etc. This should also your answer your post on the Whitebox Linux list.