Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore
Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore
Posted Oct 20, 2010 2:23 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore by Xman
Parent article: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore
> and in fairness, the RedHat binaries are proprietary
No. In fairness, Red Hat's logos and other trademarks are proprietary. If you can strip the binary packages of those, you can redistribute the rest just fine. All of it is open source after all.
This is precisely why CentOS exists. Doing the above is hard. It would also require someone to have access to the binary updates via subscription. It is easier in the long term to strip the source of marks, rebuild and distribute that. Particularly because this allows CentOS to have its own branding and patches, where required.