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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!