RE: CentOS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Van Dolson
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>
> > IANAL, perhaps trademarks would have been the correct term.
>
> > In any case, no it's not illegal.
>
> > RH takes most of their software from other sources as well you know.
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CentOS is completely legal and even RedHat states others have the right to distribute binaries compiled from redhat source code as long as redhat proprietary stuff is removed (rhn, logos, etc.). That's it. CentOS is made to be binary compatible. I can attest to that. I used to run redhat for my home business but switched to CentOS. All I had to do was install a small migrate rpm, which removed redhat logos (etc) and I had a CentOS box. Then I ran CentOS updates for a year and everything worked fine (CentOS updates on RedHat base OS). Now that's binary compatibility.

Michael

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