Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Keith Keller
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 08:05:19PM +0200, derleader __ wrote: > > I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red > Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for > everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? You'

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Digimer
On 01/08/2011 01:18 PM, derleader __ wrote: >>> Hi, >>>I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based > on Red >>> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >>> everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? >>> >>> reg

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, January 08, 2011 01:09:59 pm Keith Roberts wrote: > You can't sell GPL source code as it is protected by the > GPL, but you can sell a packaged product that includes GPL > sources, like RHEL I suppose. Sure you can sell GPL sources; you just can't prevent the buyer from giving copi

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/11 1:09 PM, derleader __ wrote: > > > Ok thank you everyone. I have a second question. > > My business strategy will be based like Red Hat on selling support and updates > to clients. > The most comfortable way for the users will be only to install the made > software > on empty server and

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread derleader __
>> There's no restriction in the GPL to prevent you from selling things. You just >> just can't prohibit the buyer/recipient from redistributing it under the >> GPL >> terms and you have to make source available. Some of the other licenses are >> different, but none prevent redistributi

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:09:59 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, derleader __ wrote: > > > To: centos@centos.org > > From: derleader __ > > Subject: [CentOS] Customizing Centos > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Markus Falb
On 8.1.2011 19:34, Les Mikesell wrote: > There's no restriction in the GPL to prevent you from selling things. You > just > just can't prohibit the buyer/recipient from redistributing it under the GPL > terms and you have to make source available. Some of the other licenses are > different, b

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/11 12:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, derleader __ wrote: >> Hi, >> I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red >> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >> everyone to see the source code. Is th

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:18 PM, derleader __ wrote: >>> Hi, >>>    I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on >>> Red >>> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >>> everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement?

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread derleader __
>> Hi, >> I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red >> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >> everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? >> >> regards >> Peter >> >> _

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, derleader __ wrote: > Hi, >    I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red > Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for > everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? > > regards

Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, derleader __ wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: derleader __ > Subject: [CentOS] Customizing Centos > > Hi, > > > I want to ask you is it legal to create my own > distribution based on Red Hat/Centos and to sell it under > different n

[CentOS] Customizing Centos

2011-01-08 Thread derleader __
Hi, I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? regards Peter ___ CentO