Licensing question

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

Bill,

I believe the key words here are "applicable Services".  The software
itself is GPL so they can't charge you for that.  What they are charging
you for is the subscription/service.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:21 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: Licensing question
>
>On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:15:23PM -0400, Bill Tangren wrote:
>> Not true.
>> 
>> 
><http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us.html?country=buying+a+R
>ed+Hat+Subscription+from+Red+Hat&>
>> 
>> 
>> 5.1 Reporting. Client will notify Red Hat (or the Business 
>Partner from 
>> whom Client purchased Software or Services) promptly if the 
>actual number 
>> of Units of Software or Services utilized by Client exceeds 
>the number of 
>> Units for which Client has paid the applicable Fees. In its 
>notice, Client 
>> will include the number of additional Units and the date(s) 
>on which such 
>> Units were first utilized. Red Hat (or the Business Partner) 
>will invoice 
>> Client for the applicable Services for such Units and Client 
>will pay for 
>> such Services no later than thirty (30) days from the date 
>of the invoice.
>> ---
>> As I read it, if you put RHEL on a box, I need a subscription for it.
>> 
>> YMMV.
>
>Interesting.  So what is Red Hat charging for in this scenario?  The
>use of their logos?
>
>Ray
>
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