License Issue

[Jason Viloria]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:17:09 +0300
> "ismail bushar" <sam33ool1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all, I knew for fedora am free to anything I want in the any way I like
>> but if the issue coming to RHEL
>> we are trying to install RHEL in our pc's we have hundered of pc's in
>> different location but it's owned by only one company, so my question is:
>>
>> should we buy only one RHEL and distributed in all pc's  or its depend
>> about  how many pc's we have and if there any way to read full license for
>> RHEL.
>>
>> I am talk specially about RHEL 5.0 or further official release. thanks
>>     
>
> Really you want to ask Red Hat about this.
>
> RHEL is a support and services package rather than just bits of code so
> you need one license per supported system. If you have a large number of
> machines contact the sales department and talk about company wide
> licensing options.
>
>
> Alan.
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> Matt Parson (USA), Charlie Peters (USA)
>
>   
If you need support for each machine then from my own experience I can 
tell you you will need a separate license for each. Without a license 
you won't be able to update from the the redhat repositories.

You could technically just buy one license, update only 1 machine and 
copy over the RPMS to your own internal repository so you can still 
update all the other machines from your repo although I am not sure 
about the legal ramifications on that one. Therefore this is just an idea.

If you do not need support from redhat then you will be better off 
running Centos 5.1 which is a rebuild of Redhat.

br
Jason