Revisiting an old topic: licensing/titlement and "redistribution"

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Jon,
> I am not a lawyer, however I believe that you can - per direction from
> RH legal at the Summit - but IF AND ONLY IF you have *no* currently
> subscribed systems.  That is the barrier to not being bound to the
> subscription agreement, which states 1 machine takes 1 entitlement.
> The agreement applies to an entity, not an installation - therefore if
> you have even a single subscription, all installations in your
> organization require a subscription.
>   
This looks perfectly reasonable and legal, but many times Red Hat people 
told me (as a customer) that I didn't need entitlements for 
non-production systems, like a staging server to apply upgades before 
installing then on production servers, a lab network where we test new 
firewall rules, or the system where we install a third-party application 
just to try before buying.

But this may be wrong just as when some says you can't install anything 
without a valid subscription. :-)


[]s, Fernando Lozano