When I asked that exact question of an account manager at a dog&pony show they did with Oracle at Redhat's main office, the response was that the SRPMs are GPL, but the binary distribution is not. AS was being licensed for one year at a time for a single computer at a time. Since in the reorganization to WS, ES and AS, RH has gone back to calling it Enterprise Linux, this may have changed. With AS2.1, they actually said that it was not Linux but had many features of Linux (at least part of the reason for this statement was because some of the SMP changes they made were not blessed, they may be at this point). -- Michael Brown Glen Raven, Inc./Info Services Senior Oracle DBA 1831 N. Park Ave Phone: (336)586-1146 Glen Raven, NC 27217 Fax: (336)586-1382 mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Dodd Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 11:00 AM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Red Hat EW Licensing Michael Brown wrote: > exactly what you paid for the first year all over again. With the > Enterprise Linux, you are not buying a product, you are buying a year of > some level of support and the right to use the software on a single computer > for one year. You are only buying the support. You have the right to use the software on as many machines as you want. You have the right to qive it to anyone you want. It's GPL. You can even base your own distro of it, and sell that. The support contract does have limitations, but they only void the support contract, not your right to use the software. If you want support and update access through RHEN, you must abide by the terms of the agreement. That means paying for every RHEL-WS/ES/AS system you have. -Thomas -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
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