http://nerdvittles.com/?p=8721
Ward Mundy at Nerd Vittles has always been level headed (IMHO) and thorough. Seems that Red Hat has now been assigned all the CentOS trademarks: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/caseviewer/assignments?caseId=86014936 <http://tsdr.uspto.gov/caseviewer/assignments?caseId=86014936&docIndex=0#doc Index=0> &docIndex=0#docIndex=0 and is now putting some new restrictions on the use of CentOS as the basis for a custom distribution (product or project - like Scientific Linux or Elastix) unless it is an "official" CentOS packaging/distribution. Not sure if they will provide a way for one to be "certified" by Red Hat or not, but either way, this is going to rain on quite a few parades. End users can still install CentOS and then load other stuff, but the days of the open and free use of CentOS as the basis for a rolled up specialized distro are now over. To think Red Hat actually appreciated all that revenue being lost to CentOS over the past decade was just that. wishful thinking. Obviously, as Ward points out, this is going to take a while to legally settle out, and could really muddy the waters. At least Debian remains totally in the clear! Yeah, I know, some of you have been touting this all along. :) Wow! Who didn't see this coming?! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
