[CentOS] CentOS 8 future

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)