Hello, my name is Douglas McClendon.  I recently discovered the rolling 

alpha of SL6 after discovering how comparatively closed the CentOS 

development is.  I have a history of working with fedora, and 

contributing primarily to their livecd-tools and related anaconda stuff. 

  I even have my own alternate livecd generation system, which as of the 

last couple of days now supports 6rolling.  Thus I plan to release a 

rebranded installable live .iso image in the next day or two.



In general my first presumption is to deal with SL as an upstream 

similarly to how I deal with fedora.  I.e. brandstrip the same way SL 

brandstrips from its upstream.  The question I have next, is whether you 

have the same attitude towards repo configs as fedora.  Fedora has 

explicitly stated that they do not mind rebranded and remixed derivative 

distros shipping with repo configs pointing at their repositories. 

However after reading your FAQs and seeing the bit about you considering 

a commercial derivative to be 'rude' and 'possibly illegal' (like FUD 

much?), I figure its best to ask if you have a problem with that.  If 

so, I can create my own quasi-mirror repo, but I'd rather stick with 

yours as I do with my fedora derivatives.



Also, I would like to comment on that 'rude' bit.  Given that SL is 

'capitalizing' on the works of countless other individuals and 

corporations who play by the GPL rules, I find the 'rude' comment to be 

a bit 'rude' in itself.  Myself, I've been unemployed for quite some 

time, and have code and contributions that perhaps some subset of the SL 

community are using to make their $$ jobs go more smoothly and 

efficiently.  It seems only fair that in the extremely unlikely event 

that I could successfully commercialize a SL derived distro, that I 

should be allowed to feed myself.  I really wish I didn't mean that as 

literally as I do.



But no worries, it will certainly be no sweat to do my initial 

development against the available 6rolling, and then switch to CentOS 

for any commercial purposes - not because there is any legal requirement 

I think that I do so, but just to avoid being considered 'rude' by the 

SL community.



In any event, I do very much appreciate your work, as well as the 

mountain of work which is its foundation.  Thank you, and I hope that 

some of the experimental projects I'm working on will perhaps be of some 

help to your community in the coming days as well.  (in the immediate 

future they will be non-commercial GPL offerings, but my goal is to 

commercially feed myself with my work somehow)



Cheers,



-dmc

Douglas McClendon