Ray Van Dolson <> scribbled on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:31 PM: What you pay for is the patches and support you get over RHN. The media alone is as I understand it GPLed. Kinda'. Confusing enough? 8-} > Hi everyone, this topic has been brought up from time to time, but > generally I've seen conflicting answers (and have just received one > from my RH sales rep). > > To avoid getting too overcomplicated by describing my specific > situation, I'm trying to determine if a copy of RHEL was purchased > (entitlement and support for one year say), are we then allowed to take > the installation media and reinstall it to X number of machines and > just _not_ take advantage of support or updates for those machines? > > This was my initial understanding of things, but reading over the > Enterprise Agreement and EULA it seems that this may not be the case. > > However I am confused because I understand that you can get a 30-day > trial of RHEL and continue using it legally even after the trial is > completed. I'm not sure what the "real" difference is between simply > reinstalling from media to many machines and downloading 50 trial > copies and doing the same. > > In addition, you can continue to use a paid-for installation of RHEL > after the entitlement has run out. > > My ultimate goal here is not to fleece RH out of any $$ they are owed, > but to get a handle on what we should and should not be paying for, and > perhaps get a tighter rein on what is and isn't installed around here. > :) > > The vast majority of our RHEL installs are point-release specific -- ie > RHEL4 U4, and are not really production machines but just done to > reproduce a problem or verify compatibility. It would be nice in these > situations to just slap a copy of RHEL on a machine for a few weeks and > not need to worry about tracking down whether or not we have a valid > entitlement, etc, etc, or even worse trying to reconcile it all at the > end of the year when subscriptions expire :) > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts. > Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
