Re: Q: RH enterprise products license

What follows is what is possible. I am in no way recommending one do 
this. I suggest you pay for the service level you need. However, I also 
would like to see the RHEL service level include an eratta only option.

Samuel Flory wrote:
> According to the gpl license if they distribute gpl binaries. They MUST 
> give the recipients' the full rights to the programs. If they don't they 
> lose the right to distribute it. So nothing prevents you from buying one 
> RHEL subscription, and copying the rpm to all of the rest of your systems.

Based on the GPL and the RHEL agreements, and to have them consistent.

1) you can redistribute RHEL, though I doubt anyone who has paid for it 
would want too. You also cannot call it Red Hat anything (See the 
inexpensive CDs of the free ISO releases today. They are not named Red 
Hat Linux.)

2) you can make as many copies as you want.

3) to get support from Red Hat you must subscribe to RHEN (or similar).

4) that subscription require that *ALL* systems running RHEL be 
subscribed, subject to audits, and fines for non compliance.

So I _could_ buy a copy of RHEL. At the end of the agreement, cancel/not 
renew my support agreement. Then install on as many machines as I want. 
I will *not* get support from Red Hat. I _can_ download the SRPMS and 
rebuild them for update, or find someone else who has.

Also, according to 1.3 PAYMENT, if I don't pay the fees:
"In the event Customer fails to make payment to Red Hat in the manner 
provided by this Agreement, Red Hat's remedies include (a) suspending 
Services until Red Hat receives full payment from Customer for all fees, 
including late fees and interest, due, or (b) terminating this Agreement 
without notice."

There for I am able to run as many unsupported systems as I wish.
I cannot however have a mix of supported and unsupported systems running 
RHEL in any form. I can have RHEL machins that are supported and 
unsupportred machines running RHL or some other OS/distribution.

It's unclear weather I can have unsupported machine *based* on RHEL 
mixed in. If I modify RHEL removin the Red Hat trademarks according to 
http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/ and install it on 
machines would that place me in a breack of the license?

Since C.5 says Red Hat *may* decline to support modified systems, not 
*will*, it's a questionable. Something that more clearly defines an 
unsupported system would help with that.

	-Thomas



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