RHEL without License?

[Ugo Bellavance]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>>I was wondering:  Is it possible for someone who uses a RHEL clone to
>>make a donation to redhat?
> 
> 
> I posted this question to the Ambassador list and the suggestion there
> was to spend the money at the Red Hat store.
> 
> Personally, my suggestion would be to make a donation to an open source
> project that Red Hat distributes or even any open source project that
> provides a RHEL rpm.  Any of those will help Red Hat in the long run.
> 
> There are lots and lots of projects out there that need funding.  Drupal
> the other day put out a call for funding to buy a new server (they were
> getting the facilities donated).  They asked for $3k and were quickly up
> to over $9k.  That should allow them to probably put in a nice cluster
> that will last a few years.  Drupal is the CMS that drives the web site
> for a non-profit organization that I work with and that is hosted on a
> RHEL-system based.
> 
> The Fedora Foundation, once it has been set up, will be a non-profit
> that will require funding to help drive Fedora, the basis for RHEL.  The
> Apache Foundation will gladly accept contributions now - see their page
> at http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html - for any of their
> projects including Apache and SpamAssassin.
> 
> Cheers,
>         .../Ed
> 

Thanks Ed, very good suggestions.

Ugo