Alain Reguera wrote: > if I understand, the CentOS project is not just supported technically > by the CentOS Developers Team but financially too ?, in case of close. correct. > Could be the issue of the CentOS Developers be redhat's customers a > relationship with redhat ? ( supposing that if they pay for something > they becomes customers of that). > none of the CentOS devlopers are directly customers of Redhat for the distro products ( that i am aware of ) , some of them might be via commerical / work place routes ) >> > What happen with those countries that are not allowed to use redhat, >> > can they use CentOS ? does redhat want this ? is this permitted by >> > some legal argument. Allowed by whom ? Most of the CentOS developers are not based in the US, and neither are US laws applicable to anything that we do! And anyway, where can I find such a list where RH products are not permitted ? >> CentOS does not distribute our product in any places where the United >> States export laws prohibit distribution. CentOS isnt a US product, if anything is a UK based entity, and there are no restrictions on anyone using it - whatever part of the world they might be from, unless the GPL thinks otherwise. I didnt think the GPL was influenced by internal US politics :) - and I hope that I am not wrong. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq