Hi. my name is Giacomo Sanchietti and I'm working for a company called Nethesis.
We are working on a CentOS derived distribution like SME Server. It's a minimal CentOS with a software layer on top to add a web configuration interface.
The CD iso, it's a CentOS minimal CD with some extras packages from centos-base yum group, and a kickstart file to automatize the installation process.
We did not rebrand anaconda, so during installation (and first boot) CentOS logo and name will be visible. Is this a problem? Are there any legal issues? Do we need to rebrand all the distro?
Thank you
On 15.01.2013 10:15, Giacomo Sanchietti wrote:
We did not rebrand anaconda, so during installation (and first boot) CentOS logo and name will be visible. Is this a problem? Are there any legal issues? Do we need to rebrand all the distro?
Please read the commercial faq: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=49,
On 15.01.2013 09:15, Giacomo Sanchietti wrote:
Hi. my name is Giacomo Sanchietti and I'm working for a company called Nethesis.
We are working on a CentOS derived distribution like SME Server. It's a minimal CentOS with a software layer on top to add a web configuration interface.
The CD iso, it's a CentOS minimal CD with some extras packages from centos-base yum group, and a kickstart file to automatize the installation process.
We did not rebrand anaconda, so during installation (and first boot) CentOS logo and name will be visible. Is this a problem? Are there any legal issues? Do we need to rebrand all the distro?
Thank you
Hello Giacomo,
I also did a Centos remix and as far as I could understand it gets tricky to use the name/logo if you distribute software outside the official repos. In my case I had to change the name (to Stella) and the artwork. This is what I'm modifying: http://li.nux.ro/download/stella/6/SRPMS/
See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix, I would imagine some/most of that applies here, too.
On 01/15/2013 03:15 AM, Giacomo Sanchietti wrote:
Hi. my name is Giacomo Sanchietti and I'm working for a company called Nethesis.
We are working on a CentOS derived distribution like SME Server. It's a minimal CentOS with a software layer on top to add a web configuration interface.
The CD iso, it's a CentOS minimal CD with some extras packages from centos-base yum group, and a kickstart file to automatize the installation process.
We did not rebrand anaconda, so during installation (and first boot) CentOS logo and name will be visible. Is this a problem? Are there any legal issues? Do we need to rebrand all the distro?
If you do not change any of the CentOS RPMS with your added content then it would be fine to use the official CentOS branding and installer. Your content as well as ours (the entire compilation) would need to be GPL compatible with sources available, etc.
I assume you are changing at least /etc/redhat-release and other things if you are shipping a "distribution" though, so the above is likely not true. If you replace CentOS content with your own, then we would request that you change the branding for the installer.
We are OK with you saying that you base your distribution on CentOS though, even if you need to change the branding.
You can use our logo where you say you base your distribution on CentOS (on your website, in PDF documentation, etc.) ... as long as the logo links back to www.centos.org or you have a footnote that points to www.centos.org in printed material.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
If you do not change any of the CentOS RPMS with your added content then it would be fine to use the official CentOS branding and installer. Your content as well as ours (the entire compilation) would need to be GPL compatible with sources available, etc.
We don't change any CentOS RPMS, and all added RPMS are distributed under GPL license.
I assume you are changing at least /etc/redhat-release and other things if you are shipping a "distribution" though, so the above is likely not true. If you replace CentOS content with your own, then we would request that you change the branding for the installer.
We don't neither replace the /etc/redhat-release from the RPM: after the first boot there is a simple bash script which changes the redhat-release link.
In the end, I think we can use CentOS name and logos without re-branding.
Thanks for the support.
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Johnny Hughes -
Nux!