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Re: [PLUG] RHEL Subscription Question
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>From the license, it seems like you need *all* of your RHEL machines
to subscribe or *none* at all to stay legal. You can't have a few with
a subscription and a few without. As far as the software itself goes,
it looks like it's mostly GPL, so you should be ok there as long as
you don't install something under a non FOSS license. If you have a
current subscription it might be a good idea to just log a support
call to see how their lawyers interpret it so you don't run into
problems. (IANAL of course)
-Jon
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jon Bringhurst <jon@bringhurst.org> wrote:
> I'd just like to mention that my first experience with CentOS was my
> previous job. I setup apache (a few vhosts), did some basic hardening,
> and turned on auto updates (minimal CentOS 4 install, no X, etc) . The
> thing hasn't had any downtime yet in a little over 2 years.
>
> I just wanted to make the point that CentOS is a solid distro. :-)
>
> -Jon
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Austin Murphy <austin.murphy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> RHEL is mostly freely redistributable, but contains certain
>> copyrighted and trademarked material that is not. This is mostly
>> redhat logos and artwork. The RedHat name is also closely guarded.
>>
>> CentOS is the same freely redistributable software with all the redhat
>> naming and artwork stripped out. http://www.centos.org/ This is
>> probably what you want.
>>
>> Austin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Wells, David J <dwells@elemica.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've got another question that I can't find a solid answer to. I read
>>> through most of the EULA's I could find on RedHat's site and not a single
>>> one said that it violates the EULA the run RHEL without purchasing a
>>> subscription and updating the binaries from an external source… RPMFIND,
>>> etc… does anyone have any insight?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ~Dave
>>>
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