Tim wrote:
It's clearly a derivative (it's derived from it). CentOS is a CentOS
"product", the CentOS product is something that they produce from
someone else's parts.
And since CentOS is a derivative of Red Hat that would mean the folks
at CentOS are controlled by Red Hat, right?
In an indirect manner, it would be. Since CentOS follows what Red Hat
does, if Red Hat change something, CentOS will do the same. They're not
forced to, but they'll have done so as their default policy of staying
in step. They could be different, but they want to be a free clone of
RHEL, and that's what users of CentOS want it to be. That would fit the
definition of being controlled externally, even if not being controlled
absolutely.
Hummmmm.....
Taking these and other comments to an extreme one can argue that RHEL is a
product of Fedora since RHEL contains only parts of what is in Fedora.
Since Fedora has more "bits" then RHEL is subset of Fedora.
And, doesn't Ubuntu follow in the footsteps of the Debians of the
world? :-)
A similar situation, but I don't follow Ubuntu closely. I haven't read
what their policies are about copying Debian.
--
To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
- William Cowper
