| The CentOS Distribution is a free enterprise class computing platform |
| to anyone who wishes to use it. The CentOS Distribution is built from |
| publicly available open source SRPMS provided by a prominent North |
| American Enterprise Linux vendor. The CentOS Distribution conforms |
| fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be |
| 100% binary compatible (The CentOS Project mainly changes packages to |
| remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.). |
| |
| The CentOS Project releases its CentOS Distribution as a GPL work. The |
| GPL applies to the software collection known as the CentOS |
| Distribution. Individual packages included in the distribution |
| include their own licenses and the GPL applies to all packages that it |
| does not clash with. If there is a clash between the GPL and |
| individual package licenses, the individual package license applies |
| instead. |
| |
| Neither the CentOS Project (we who build CentOS Distribution) nor any |
| version of CentOS Distribution is affiliated with, produced by, or |
| supported by the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. |
| Neither does our software contain the upstream vendor's product ... |
| although it is built from the same open source SRPMS as the upstream |
| enterprise products. |
| |
| |