[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:19 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 15:25 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> >> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> > This rationale contributes to me not to consider RHEL and CentOS, which
> >> > is the rationale why I don't consider them to be replacements for a
> >> > "Fedora LTS".
> >>
> >> So CentOS is non-free?
> > CentOS is free as "free-beer", but CentOS is not free to take decisions
> > on their own, because they depend on RHEL's sources.

> Can I put any package into Fedora then?
Yes, but you can't modify packages in CentOS, which would break
RHEL-compatibility, nor will you be able to add any package to EPEL, if
a release of CentOS doesn't meet this package's demands.