[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/15/2020 12:20 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 8/15/2020 2:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <rh78q0$1km5$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>
>>>>>> As far as I'm concerned, VSI should make their product free to
>>>>>> everyone, with commercial use requiring support contract.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ask Red Hat what they think of such a thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Red Hat didn't invest a lot of money getting the product
>>>>> they started with.
>>>>
>>>> They did not initiate the project.
>>>>
>>>> But they have contributed heavily.
>>>
>>> Of course, because of the terms, Red Hat couldn't charge for Linux
>>> itself even if they wanted to.
>>
>> Unless they have some other source of revenue, it appears they are
>> successful without charging license fees.
> 
> Red Hat sure does charge license fees.  You can't use a Red Hat distro
> without paying for it.  It's not cheap either.
> 
> Now, you can use a Centos distro or a Scientific Linux distro which are
> functionally very close to Red Hat, but not licensed the same way.  I have
> yet to find any Red Hat code, source or binary, that doesn't run fine under
> Centos.  But Centos is not Red Hat.

CentOS is not Redhat Enterprise Linux.

CentOS is produced by Redhat.

If somethings runs on RHEL but not on CentOS then I think one
could report it as a bug.

https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#What_is_CentOS_Linux.3F

<quote>
CentOS Linux provides a free and open source computing platform to 
anyone who wishes to use it. CentOS Linux releases are built from 
publicly available open source source code provided by Red Hat, Inc for 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This source code is available on the CentOS 
Git website.

CentOS Linux is the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat 
family of Linux distributions. See this FAQ for more information.

CentOS conforms fully with Red Hat, Inc's redistribution policies and 
aims to be functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS 
mainly changes packages to remove trademarked vendor branding and artwork.

CentOS Linux does not contain Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Linux; 
nor does it have any of their certifications, although it is built from 
the same source code as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
</quote>

Arne