[CentOS] Centos 7 License???

[Digimer]

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?