Re: Red Hat Enterprise - do I have to subscibe?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: 6 Jan 2005 14:50:08 GMT

Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com> writes:

>Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc peterharding@yahoo.com:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>>I have recently bought a 12 month subscription for Red Hat Enterprise
>>>ES v3. Now I have downloaded the ISO's can I install them as many times
>>>as I like on other servers? Or is this a one license one server? I
>>
>>
>> The RH WS/ES/AS license is for one system. We had a couple of
>> discussions about it some month ago, you should find them
>> (groups.google.com) in the archives.
>>
>>
>>>understand that with no subsciption you are not entitled to
>>>updates/fixes etc, but I just wondered where I stood legally.
>>
>>
>> Yep, you might want to read:
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/page6.html
>>
>> IIRC Peter dropped a mail to redhat about the question which came
>> up during those threads, which were unclear to some people, dunno
>> if he received an answer. Perhaps he's reading this thread?
>>
>Actually, why not read the license agreement itself. The one I have for
>RHEL3 ES is at:

>http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html?country=United+States&

Because it is contradictory and unclear. In one place it states that the
distribution is GPL and another that it cannot be copied or installed on
more computers than licenses, which contradicts the GPL. They demand the
right to come to your premises and audit on how many computers it is
installed. The referent to that word it is however extremely unclear.
The only thing that it could refer to (since that is the only thing actuall
installed on a computer) is the (parts) of the distribution.

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