On 01/04/15 01:56 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > Today I did a yum upgrade to my kvm'ized Centos 7 test machine > (perhaps a bad day to do such a thing) and received new kernel > vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64, among many other things. > When I rebooted, I was asked to confirm (or renew, or some such) > my license. My LICENSE ??? > > I was booting in text mode and the actions required were > a) unfamiliar, and b) hard to understand. > > As I recall, I had to read the EULA - a worrisomely Microsoftian > demand - and accept it. Of course, the terms were pretty benign. > Then I had to continue. I can't remember the exact language. > Of course, now when I reboot, all this cruft is gone. > > Is this a cute April Fool joke? > If not, WTF is going on? RHEL 7, which is upstream of CentOS 7, has a license component. I suspect that given CentOS's goal of replicating RHEL "warts and all", this is a by-product of that. When I played with CentOS 7 GUI install, the "license" is basically "it is GPL, have a nice day" [ Accept ]. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?