Uninstall Redhat Network Components - Continued

[Russell Harrison]

Basically what they don't want is your machine that no longer has support to
keep hitting their RHN servers.  Until you remove the RHN bits from your
system it will check in periodically and fail to authorize.  They just want
to eliminate that unnecessary load on their servers.

On 11/7/06, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/06, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) <MarMcDouga at gov.mb.ca> wrote:
> > IANAL, but:
> > What they want is money.  If you don't pay them then you can't use ANY
> of their EL distributions.  That's what Fedora and the other "free"
> distributions are for.
> >
> > So, to answer your question, they want you to remove everything that was
> installed from either the RHEL installation CD or the downloaded RHEL ISO's.
> (V2, 3, 4, and 5)
>
> No, you aren't required to remove the OS which is distributed under
> the GPL. See the FAQ for some information on this ...
>
>   http://www.redhat.com/rhel/renew/faqs/#6
>
> I don't know what they mean exactly by "Red Hat Network Code" but I
> suspect that refers to non-GPL code related to RHN, stuff like
> satellite server code perhaps. It would be nice if this were clarified
> in the same FAQ in the future.
>
> John
>
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