Dear All,

We are as Airbus DS CyberSecurity running projects with the aim of introducing 
some cyber security products mainly for defence and ICS industry.

We want to use Linux OS in our products (hardware, software or even service) 
and therefore we are in the process of getting FOSS (Free Open Source Software) 
clearance for those products.   The product will be commercial and distributed 
to the customers in a hardware box with following conditions:


1.       No visibility of OS and Trademark:  The product will be a hardware box 
and the OS will never we visible to the end user even in the documentation.  We 
do not (normal use)  expect any customer to interface with the product OS in 
any manner.   In  conjunction with this, we do not aim at using/displaying the 
trademark of the OS in any form.

2.       No Source Code Change: The software running on the box  is developed 
from scratch with some shared libraries.  The licensing for those libraries is 
currently handled separately.  But, practically, we do not change any source 
code of another software or OS component.

3.       OS changes:  We mainly change the network configuration, syslog 
configuration, OS startup configuration, security hardening (based on the 
recommendations of the to be used OS distribution) and add some folders and new 
files for our purpose under /opt and /etc.

4.       Custom Repository:  We strictly differentiate between our own packages 
and Linux OS packages.  So, we will provide a custom repository for own 
packages.  OS updates and any other updates would be retrieved from one of the 
distribution repositories.

SL 7.3 release notes given below

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/os/sl-release-notes.html#_packages_removed_from_upstream

states  "There is a new Scientific Linux End User License Agreement (EULA). The 
EULA now contains information about the U.S. Government contract under which 
Fermilab produces Scientific Linux".

And the EULA allows

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/os/EULA

redistribution and commercial usage so long as GPL v2 is satisfied.

We would be glad to use SL 7.3 as our choice of Linux OS but we need on our 
side to assure that this will not change in the upcoming releases or at least 
this EULA will be valid for all 7.x releases.  What are your comments on this?  
Is there a communication partner by Fermi Lab that could assist us in this 
manner?

Thanks


Beste Grüße - Kind Regards,

Yilmaz Cankaya
Project-/Bid Manager
CyberSecurity

Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 1
82024  Taufkirchen
Germany

T:   +49 (0) 89 3179 7609
E:   yilmaz.cank...@airbus.com<mailto:yilmaz.cank...@airbus.com>

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