Alain Reguera wrote: >> 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 ) > > But if there is a close, they have to. right? I think, in order to > keep CentOS alive. we'll see if and when there is a 'close'. You should keep in mind that we are neither competing nor fighting Redhat, and we are certainly not stealing anything from them. We provide an alternative to RH's offering to people who can support themselves ( or are happy with the support options provided by the open source community and the centos users community ) and we do this meeting all RH requirements for doing so. >> And anyway, where can I find such a list where RH products are not >> permitted ? > > the list was shown to me from fedora core 5 no redhat, I have no > redhat cds to look for it. In fedora the list can be found in the > first CD in the file eula.txt in the Export Control section in the 67 > line. Or in the url: > http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/rawhide-snapshots/2006-05-27-0237/eula.txt were not Fedora. we dont really care about the regulations that rh-legal might place on Fedora's policy. >> >> 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. > > Even when redhat would have a list similar to what fedora has?. that is your assumption :) And besides Redhat is a US based commercial entity, and might be subject to legal or commercial regulations. Who knows, I dont. The software is open source. And while a very large portion of 'upstream' is sitting inside Redhat - this 'upstream' does release under open source licenses. you should seek legal council for details on this issue and how it might affect you in your country, if you are so concerned about it. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq