Alain Reguera wrote:
>> none of the CentOS devlopers are directly customers of Redhat for the
>> distro products ( that i am aware of ) , some of them might be via
>> commerical / work place routes )
>
> But if there is a close, they have to. right? I think, in order to
> keep CentOS alive.
we'll see if and when there is a 'close'. You should keep in mind that
we are neither competing nor fighting Redhat, and we are certainly not
stealing anything from them. We provide an alternative to RH's offering
to people who can support themselves ( or are happy with the support
options provided by the open source community and the centos users
community ) and we do this meeting all RH requirements for doing so.
>> And anyway, where can I find such a list where RH products are not
>> permitted ?
>
> the list was shown to me from fedora core 5 no redhat, I have no
> redhat cds to look for it. In fedora the list can be found in the
> first CD in the file eula.txt in the Export Control section in the 67
> line. Or in the url:
> http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/rawhide-snapshots/2006-05-27-0237/eula.txt
were not Fedora. we dont really care about the regulations that rh-legal
might place on Fedora's policy.
>> >> CentOS does not distribute our product in any places where the United
>> >> States export laws prohibit distribution.
>>
>> CentOS isnt a US product, if anything is a UK based entity, and there
>> are no restrictions on anyone using it - whatever part of the world they
>> might be from, unless the GPL thinks otherwise.
>
> Even when redhat would have a list similar to what fedora has?.
that is your assumption :) And besides Redhat is a US based commercial
entity, and might be subject to legal or commercial regulations. Who
knows, I dont. The software is open source. And while a very large
portion of 'upstream' is sitting inside Redhat - this 'upstream' does
release under open source licenses.
you should seek legal council for details on this issue and how it might
affect you in your country, if you are so concerned about it.
--
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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