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:
1. 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
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.
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:07 -0800, Alex Chen wrote:
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?
It's GPL, that is the EULA.
- I believe it is RHES based, what is the version matrix corresponding
to Red Hat ES?
CentOS-4.2 is EL4 update 2. It is most closely related to the AS product.
- Does it have extra stuff other than vanilla RHES added?
Yes and no. If you use just the [base] and [update] sections, the only additions are yum and the items required to run yum. The only changes are as explained in the release notes.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
- If I decide to do the rebuild myself to remove the RH trademark
stuff, what packages should I modify?
We modified everything in the OS tree that has a .centos4 in the name (and the kernel, which does not have a .centos4 in the name due to 3rd party drivers).
But, unless you plan to also rebuild every update and setup a mirror system to distribute the updates to your customers, CentOS is probably your best bet.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Alex
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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