 | | | Re: RHEL 3.0 CDs | Re: RHEL 3.0 CDs 2004-05-13 - By Ryan Finnie
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On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ed Greshko wrote:
> In particular, I feel:
>
> "The Service may be used only for the benefit of the Customer and only
> for the systems with subscriptions. Customer may not use one
> subscription for Services for more than one system concurrently. Any
> unauthorized use of the Service will be deemed to be a material breach
> of this Agreement. "
>
> is fairly clear on that matter.
The RHEL/RHN license agreement prohibits you from installing the binary
distribution on more machines than you are licensed for. While they have
no technological countermeasures (like WinXP activation) to prevent
circumventing this, you have agreed to this, and breaking it is
essentially just as evil as violating the GPL. But speaking of the GPL,
as it 's been mentioned before, once you have a binary license, you have a
license to redistribute the source, in source or recompiled binaries.
WBEL has been mentioned earlier in the thread, but if you want a cheaper
solution than RHEL, I 'd say go with RHPW. It 's virtually the same as
RHEL3WS, is directly supported by Red Hat (albeit without the
"integration-level " support you get with RHEL), is only $80, and can be
bought by walking down to CompUSA.
Sidetrack #1: Come on Red Hat, stick to one story! Didn 't you say you got
out of the retail market because box set distros weren 't selling/worth the
effort to produce? Ahh well, I have RHPW installed where the support
needed by RHEL3WS isn 't needed, and it 's useful, so I shouldn 't complain.
Sidetrack #2: What 's up with the "Red Hat Desktop " product? I don 't speak
marketeese, but the product page on the web site sounds like this is a
LTSP-like offering (centrally-managed server with diskless and/or minimal
workstations connecting to it).
RF
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