centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:50:26 +0100 Niki Kovacs <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Mag Gam a écrit :Why would you download an illegal version of RHEL? I see noThere is no illegal version of RHEL. When you buy from RH, you are not buying RHEL, but support and updates for the particular version of RHEL that you paid for. Its the same for Novell andSuSE.
This is not technically true ... but close :DYou can not redistribute the redhat-logos or redhat-artwork binary packages to others unless you are selling your media. You also can not distribute those 2 source or binary RPMS without editing and removing the logos / trademark related things in them. Since the ISOs in question on the Bittorrent sites distribute those files, they are illegal per Red Hat's trademark policies.
Now USING the RHEL discs (not distributing them to others, but installing on your own equipment) is a totally different story (and much more restrictive). You may not install any RHEL packages that are provided by Red Hat on ANY machines that you have not purchased an entitlement for. That means on test machines, production machines, whatever. No entitlement, no install allowed. It does not matter whether you want "Support" or not.
Red Hat has the right to audit your equipment for up to 1 year after your last license expires for compliance.
Now, RH artwork [the hat...] and names are copyrighted, but that's it. You can legally download the full source code, which is what the CentOS team did. The CentOS team provides the support [through this mailing list] and the updates for free.
CentOS does provide everything you need to run an enterprise OS meeting all the upstream redistribution requirements, yes.
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