That's exactly what it is. If you want to obtain an installable binary copy or RHEL, you have to pay for a one year subscription. If you wish to "roll your own", to coin a phrase, RH "currently" is more than happy to provide you with a full set of SRPMS to download and build the complete set of RPMS yourself. Of course there's a small matter of the installer, which you will also have to "roll your own" on. So, a more correct statement would be that the RHEL product line is not free, but is available on a subscription fee basis. However, currently the sources are freely available until RH decides that they won't be as is their right under the GPL. The amount of money you'd spend in time and effort to create your own release would be more valuable than the cost of forking over the cash. Paul C. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Wood Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:39 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Advanced Server free? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Wood" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: Re: Advanced Server free? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reuben D. Budiardja"> > > GPL does not necessarily mean it's free. it means that they have to > provide > > the source to the person they distribute the binay to. To continue with that though, that (to me) would "imply" that possession of RH's code would mean WBEL *shouldn't* be redistributing what it has - even if RH is offering up SRPMs to the world. Because, WBEL and it's downloader aren't RH customers and don't have the pure RHEL binaries. Yeah, I know WBEL <> RHEL but the symantics are confusing. That's why I frequently hear the "you'll be out of compliance" rather than a more strong statement - "illegal". I still think this refers mainly to support and binary format of updates. -Eric Wood -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
