Advanced Server free?

[Paul Crossman]

That's exactly what it is.  

If you want to obtain an installable binary copy or RHEL, you have to
pay for a one year subscription.  

If you wish to "roll your own", to coin a phrase, RH "currently" is more
than happy to provide you with a full set of SRPMS to download and build
the complete set of RPMS yourself.  

Of course there's a small matter of the installer, which you will also
have to "roll your own" on.

So, a more correct statement would be that the RHEL product line is not
free, but is available on a subscription fee basis.  However, currently
the sources are freely available until RH decides that they won't be as
is their right under the GPL.

The amount of money you'd spend in time and effort to create your own
release would be more valuable than the cost of forking over the cash.

Paul C.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eric Wood
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:39 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Advanced Server free?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Wood" <eric at interplas.com>
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list"
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Advanced Server free?


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Reuben D. Budiardja">
> > GPL does not necessarily mean it's free. it means that they have to
> provide
> > the source to the person they distribute the binay to.

To continue with that though, that (to me) would "imply" that possession
of
RH's code would mean WBEL *shouldn't* be redistributing what it has -
even
if RH is offering up SRPMs to the world.  Because, WBEL and it's
downloader
aren't RH customers and don't have the pure RHEL binaries.

Yeah, I know WBEL <> RHEL but the symantics are confusing.  That's why I
frequently hear the "you'll be out of compliance" rather than a more
strong
statement - "illegal".  I still think this refers mainly to support and
binary format of updates.

-Eric Wood


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