[CentOS] Re: Centos policy?

[Scott Silva]

Johnny Hughes spake the following on 5/15/2007 2:10 PM:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:30 -0700, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
>> Just wondering....
>>
>> What is Centos policy regarding the use of Centos in a strictly
>> commercial product?
>>
>> For example: http://www.instantogo.com/
>>
> 
> Others in this thread have discussed that so long as a company follows
> the licensing requirements of the individual packages that people can
> use CentOS in this way.  So, whether we like it or not, CentOS can and
> will be used this way.
> 
> However, I want to say that the CentOS Project is 100% supportive of the
> use of CentOS in this way.  Everyone wins, even if people charge for the
> product.  Making money is not evil ... we all have to pay the rent.
> 
> We are also 100% supportive of projects that are totally free (as in
> beer) and give their sources to everyone.  We wish that everyone who
> used CentOS would do that, but as long as they follow the licensing
> requirements we are fine with people using CentOS in their projects.  In
> fact, we would much rather projects (commercial or not) use CentOS
> instead of any other distro.  We think CentOS is the best distro out
> there to base your product on .. and would be happy to work with people
> to help them do that.
> 
> We would expect that groups who use centos as a base for their product,
> and who make money from that product, would donate monetarily to the
> CentOS project.  We hope to see InstantGo do that as they gain
> customers.
That would be nice, but we'll see if the greed wins over the moral obligation.

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