Thanks a lot for your reply Ian. But it there any documentation or anything documenting that you can do so? Also, in reference to the question of downloading the ISOs for free (30 day trial) and then continuing to use them after the 30 day trial period without paying, is this legal? Thanks for your time. > From: Ian Waring <ian.waring@xxxxxxxxx> > Re: Re: RHEL without License? > Message-ID: <2327860305070611415385b178@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > I'm not sure if this question has been brought up > > before or not. I was asked by someone if they can > > continue running RHEL after their yearly subscription > > has expired. They don't want to pay and don't mind > > living without the security updates and access to RHN. > > Is this legal or not? Please provide links from Red > > Hat documentation if possible to support your > > position. Thanks for your time. > > I'm the Red Hat Business Manager at one of Red Hat's UK distributors - > and > the guidance we always give is "carry on". Matthew Szulik said as much > in > one of his interviews earlier this year. In the final analysis, you pay > for > the update service and any telephone support. If you don't need either, > the > software is unemcumbered. That's one of the beauties of Linux - > compliance > is typically far down the list of admin tasks for any end user company. > > The only warnings that run contrary to this are Red Hat Desktop > evaluation > kits - mainly on some of the contents of the "extras" CD - which are > subject > to individual terms from folks like Adobe, Real Networks, Citrix and > alike. > Even in those cases, it's largely down to whether they'll chose to > change > their own terms and conditions in the future. The current terms appear > to > work the way the rest of the Red Hat distribution does. > > Ian W. > > -- > Ian Waring - Simplicity Sells! > ian.waring@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
