[Spacewalk-list] Licensing: Feeding software channels to 3rd party companies

[Kevin Olbrich]

Anyone?

Kevin

Am Di., 9. Okt. 2018 um 18:30 Uhr schrieb Kevin Olbrich <ko at sv01.de>:

> Hi!
>
> I work for an IT company and we have a lot of clients using CentOS,
> Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
> Currently we only manage and feed our own systems but I would like to also
> manage repo feeds (channels) for our clients.
>
> For example:
> We have many customers with ceph clusters (SDS) based on CentOS 7. They
> are unmanaged and use packages from ceph's offical repos.
> Every time a node is added, it get's the latest version available. This
> year there were two major defects in ceph which lead to data curruption or
> outages.
> (ref.
> http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-announce-ceph.com/2018-July/000126.html
> )
>
> With spacewalk I am able to clone the repo and keep the version. Clients
> only receive the updates I want them to receive.
>
> While this is the reason spacewalk exists, I wonder what needs to be done
> to be correctly licensed.
> These customers pay a maintenance fee that is based on server count,
> applications, SLA and many more. This includes many more services like
> tech/phone support, monitoring and more.
>
> Are we allowed to share access to our spacewalk infrastructure if we only
> charge for the full service plan and not for spacewalk alone?
>
> Kind regards
> Kevin
>
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