GPL and RHEL

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 7 20:12:45 UTC 2003


Chuck Wolber said:
>
>
>> The word I had posted previously (that I had received from RedHat Sales)
>> was that if you buy one Enterprise License you can't install the same
>> software on another machine. Understanding that one could not get
>> support on the second machine what we can't understand is this; If the
>> Enterprise products are being sold under a GPL license (except for the
>> proprietary IBM component) how can RedHat say you can't install the
>> Enterprise product on as many machines as you want?
>
> They can't. The only restriction they can place is in the use of their
> trademarks and non-GPL'd code. Remove all of that and you've got a freely
> redistributable product. Check out: http://www.caosity.org/

Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner.

Read the RHEL License again.  All it says is that if you have more
machines with RHEL than entitlements, Red Hat has the right to cancel your
support.  Period.

The catch comes in because the reason to buy RHEL is for the support.  If
it is important enough to need support for 5 years, it is important enough
to pay for it.

-- 
William Hooper





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