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

On Dec 20, 2007 12:03 PM, David Tonhofer <redhatter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.........but can I run no-longer-subscribed Red Hat Enterprise
instantiations or not?

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.

The reason the people mention that you can keep using the 30-day eval,
I think, is that they assume that you have no other relationship with
RH, and have entered into no other agreements with them other than
the subscription agreement for the eval, which expires when you no
longer have a subscription (i.e. 30 days). After that 30 days has
elapsed, I'm under the impression that you could install 5 billion
copies if that's what you'd like to do, since you are no longer bound
by the subscription agreement.

However, you cannot redistribute the software, because RH has given
you no trademark license, nor does any constituent license.

I hope that made things as clear as mud :). FWIW, for testing and
non-production servers that you don't plan to buy a subscription for,
I would just use CentOS from the beginning and avoid this entire
discussion.

--
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Relevant Pages

  • Red Hat subscription agreement questions
    ... company to purchase Red Hat Network subscriptions for every single RH system ... it declines to purchase any RHN subscriptions. ... Hat subscription agreement? ...
    (RedHat)
  • Re: Red Hat subscription agreement questions
    ... "every machine that runs red hat enterprise linux requires a subscription ... if you do not want to purchase subscriptions, ... Hat subscription agreement? ...
    (RedHat)
  • Re: Problem w/Norton IS 2005
    ... > installation), Optimized the disk, cleaned up the registry, and tried ... NAV defaults to 'comprehensive' scanning. ... you uninstall it, then reinstall, your subscription gets reset to 1 year ...
    (comp.security.firewalls)
  • Re: RHEL License issue
    ... > Can we installed single copy of RHEL v3.0 in more than one server.Is ... subscription for *all* systems that are running Red Hat Enterprise ... The subscription agreement is the same whether you purchase a boxed set ... > multiple installation from single copy of RHEL. ...
    (RedHat)
  • Win XP - Norton Antivirus 2004 Problem
    ... I have a fresh "Win XP home SP1a" installation on my new harddrive and ... Operating System Windows XP ... Subscription Service Name Virus Definition Subscription ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)