On 12/18/20 3:04 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 12/18/20 9:20 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: >> Suppose it is June of 2022 and I have been collecting and archiving >> all of the various versions of packages that are coming out for CentOS >> Stream. Then, maybe RHEL 8.7 is finalized and hits the mirrors. I >> can analyze the versions of packages that landed in RHEL 8.7. Then I >> can grab those versions from my archive and tag them "8.7". I could >> configure my repositories appropriately and build some ISO images. Of >> course, I couldn't call that "CentOS 8.7" because RedHat has >> prohibited that. But still I could release ISO's of "Enterprise >> Respin 8.7". That is the easy problem to overcome. > > Every package in CentOS stream will be signed with CentOS keys, and > CentOS is now trademark of Red Hat. Are you sure it would be legal to > publish/distribute CentOS-signed packages under any other name? > > CentOS and other clones were legaly "safe" because they distributed > their own binaries, but could bot use any RHEL's binaries... > > We are not "sure" .. but SIG content is also signed with CentOS certified keys. My hope is we can have a SIG to follow on Stream content at some point. Whether we will be able to or not, 5 years of lifetime with a 2 year overlap with the next version of Stream is still enough time for the majority of users. It is certainly similar to non payed Ubuntu or Debian (for example)