I refer you to the beauty that is the unfinished How-To on the website. Specifically the plea for karmic balance or something. http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO-1.html#s s1.4 Now if you're paying for professional support from redhat, they're most likely going to demand that you get your updates from them, or an authorized mirror, but since the downloadable version of redhat is being rolled into fedora, which comes with yum by default, I fail to see any problem with using it whatsoever. Ahhhh the beauty of GPL'd software and free code. Cheers. -- Jim P. "There are far too many obstacles between stupidity and natural selection." --On Monday, October 06, 2003 14:34:18 -0400 jcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Quasi-legal YUM question: > > If we use Yum on a production RH 9 server, and point to a 3rd-party > repository, no subscription fees are due to Red Hat, correct? I know it > doesn't make logical sense that RH would be able to collect a fee for > applying maintenance to a box even though the maintenance doesn't come > from Red Hat; has anyone checked the wording of the License agreement > for Red Hat 9? > > I'm all for tools that do a better job than those you have to pay for... > we just have to make sure it works from a tech and legal standpoint. Can > anyone shed some light here? > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > This email (including any attachments) is confidential. If you are not > the intended recipient you must not copy, use, disclose, distribute or > rely on the information contained in it. If you have received this email > in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and delete > the email from your system. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached > to this communication are not waived or lost by reason of mistaken > delivery to you. Lend Lease does not guarantee that this email or the > attachment(s) are unaffected by computer virus, corruption or other > defects. Lend Lease may monitor incoming and outgoing emails for > compliance with its Email Policy. Please note that our servers may not be > located in your country. > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
