> 1. Is it legal for someone to distribute a Redhat Enterprise Linux copy that > he bought from Redhat without any Redhat agreement or restrictions? If yes, > than again I get back to my old question which is how will he get the > distro.
It is illegal. The binaries are copyright protected. The source is re-distributable. The Red Hat logos and trademarks embedded into their product can also not be redistributed. > 2. Is it legal for someone from Redhat(assuming he has the access to the > distro) to distribute it for free without any Redhat agreement or > restrictions(in short as FOSS) I don't think so, though I would like a RedHat guy to comment. The RHEL EULA prohibits you from using RHEL unless someone from RH gives you a license, or written permission to do so. > (b) Use CentOS > > Acceptable. Yet, still not RHEL! Not RHEL. Only better :) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
