Hi,
I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red
Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement?
regards Peter
Yes, you can customize the distro as you see fit. Many projects do this. But, you can't sell it.
I need to use customized Centos to host special software designed and written from me. Is it legal to sell my software with the operating system?
regards
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:18 PM, derleader __ derleader@abv.bg wrote:
Hi, I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement?
regards Peter
Well, in that case you sell your software, but since it uses CentOS you include CentOS and give credit where necessary. This will greatly depend on how you licence your own project. Take a look @ other projects which works in a similar manner, especially those which use Apache / MySQL and are paid-for-projects.
The easier way around is to sell your software, and provide a link to download CentOS :) If you want to make a customized CentOS ISO for this purpose, then you could also have that ISO on your website for free download.
On 01/08/2011 01:18 PM, derleader __ wrote:
Hi, I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based
on Red
Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement?
regards Peter
Yes, you can customize the distro as you see fit. Many projects do this. But, you can't sell it.
I need to use customized Centos to host special software designed and written from me. Is it legal to sell my software with the operating system?
regards
A company I contract for does just this. They sell their software and a support license for it. They offer an option to buy a pre-built server with CentOS and their application already installer, or they will provide an ISO for clients to install on their own machines.
In the end, you are selling your program, not the operating system.
To clarify; GPL allows for the software being sold for money. The trick is that the source code *must* also be made available for free. So, any modifications you make to GPL'ed software must in turn be re-released under the terms of the GPL. You do not need to provide compiled versions, mind you, but the source code itself must be made freely available.
Now, if your application is totally yours and contains no GPL'ed (or similarly licensed) code, they you can do whatever you want with it.
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